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ARIZONA--A Tucson judge in mid-September issued a temporary order forbidding The Arizona Daily Star to publish details of a settlement…

Former Enquirer reporter pleads guilty in Chiquita incident 10/05/98 OHIO--Mike Gallagher, the former Cincinnati Enquirer reporter fired in late June…

Court finds no federal privilege to protect NBC video outtakes 10/05/98 SECOND CIRCUIT--NBC must turn over outtakes from a "Dateline…

WASHINGTON--The state Supreme Court in Olympia for the first time explicitly recognized the existence of a tort cause of action…

TEXAS--A Drug Enforcement Administration agent exceeded the scope of her warrant and thus conducted illegal searches of two methadone clinics…

NINTH CIRCUIT--In mid-September a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco (9th Cir.) unanimously held that a…

SECOND CIRCUIT--Publisher Steve Forbes was sued in late August by the Federal Election Commission, which claimed that Forbes' magazine columns…

FLORIDA--Once a court has revealed the identify of a confidential informant, the police must disclose information about the amount of…

Minutes of bar examiners' meetings must be open for inspection 10/05/98 MINNESOTA--The state Supreme Court in St. Paul ruled in…

WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Federal Communication Commission conducted what it said was one of the largest crackdowns on "pirate radio" stations in…