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WISCONSIN--Criminal history records of Milwaukee public school teachers and aides are so personal that these employees are entitled to a…

WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Federal Communications Commission must provide justification for its longstanding "personal attack" and "political editorial" rules in order to…

WASHINGTON, D.C.--The federal government still has a long way to go toward making government information easily accessible to the public…

CALIFORNIA--In late July, the state Supreme Court in San Francisco unanimously barred the disclosure of grand jury records concerning the…

MINNESOTA--The common law qualified privilege that protects fair and accurate reporting of a public proceeding can be overcome with the…

WEST VIRGINIA--In mid-July, the state Supreme Court of Appeals in Charleston, the state's highest court, unanimously upheld a trial court's…

OREGON--Administrative rules limiting access to and speech about executions by witnesses, including news media, were overturned by the Oregon Supreme…

PENNSYLVANIA--A newspaper has no right to examine taxpayer files to determine which business entities are delinquent, Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court in…

Arguing in support of a journalist's right to present a First Amendment defense to a technical violation of the law

Author gets probation for conspiring to steal airline seat fabric 07/26/99 NEW YORK--A federal judge in Uniondale sentenced investigative journalist…