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Director Alex Gibney has been called “the most important documentarian of our time” by Esquire Magazine (Esquire) and “one of…

Following almost two weeks of pressure from free speech groups and press coverage, a Georgia district attorney moved to drop…

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President Barack Obama today signed a bill that significantly reforms and improves access to public records under the Freedom of…

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund and other organizations challenged Idaho Code Ann. § 18-7042, known as an "ag-gag" statute, as…

On Wednesday, the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on an…

In testimony prepared for the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, Reporters Committee for Freedom of…

In testimony prepared for the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, Reporters Committee for Freedom of…