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Nursing home audit letters found exempt from disclosure 01/25/99 NEBRASKA--Letters sent as part of nursing home audits qualify as investigatory…

Court rejects media's request for confession videotapes 01/25/99 ARIZONA--In mid-December, the Superior Court in Florence refused to release to The…

Court finds disclosure benefits can outweigh privacy interests 01/25/99 D.C. CIRCUIT--A federal appeals panel in early January altered the balancing…

Police in Gaza detain foreign journalists over Desert Fox coverage 01/25/99 GAZA--Palestinian police in the Gaza Strip detained eight journalists,…

Court, extending recent appellate decision, finds no privilege 01/25/99 SECOND CIRCUIT--A federal district judge in New York City in mid-…

Public station allowed to reject Ku Klux Klan underwriting 01/25/99 MISSOURI--In early December, U.S. Magistrate Thomas Mummert in St. Louis…

Clinton trial raises new media, public access problems 01/25/99 WASHINGTON, D.C.--President Clinton's impeachment trial has sparked controversy over the right…

Jailed reporter's contempt conviction overturned 01/11/99 MISSISSIPPI--In mid-December, the Mississippi Supreme Court in Jackson unanimously overturned the contempt conviction of…

Taping constitutes þinterception' of call, court finds 01/11/99 NEVADA--In early December, a divided state Supreme Court in Carson City held…

Court overturns denial of author's FBI surveillance records 01/11/99 D.C. CIRCUIT--Seven years after author James Campbell's biography of the late…