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NINTH CIRCUIT--A ban prohibiting Arizona prisoners from possessing any pictures depicting frontal nudity is unconstitutional, the U.S. Court of Appeals…

CALIFORNIA--After being amended several times, legislation attempting to make it a crime for the Ku Klux Klan to insert hate…

WASHINGTON--The state's stalking law does not intrude upon constitutionally protected behavior such as news gathering, the Washington Supreme Court ruled…

In late May a federal District Court in Washington, D.C. refused to quash a subpoena from Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr…

Fort Myers mayor Bruce Grady was acquitted in late May of battery charges stemming from an altercation with a reporter…

MARYLAND--In late May, Maryland's highest court stayed a lower court order barring a newspaper reporter who violated a gag order…

WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Chinese government withdrew the visas of three U.S. reporters who work for Radio Free Asia and had planned…

WISCONSIN--Following the lead of federal courts in South Carolina and Oklahoma, a federal District Court judge in Wisconsin declared the…

CALIFORNIA--Free Radio Berkeley, an unlicensed low-power radio station, stopped transmitting its signal following a mid-June ruling against it by the…

ELEVENTH CIRCUIT--In early June a federal appeals court in Atlanta (11th Cir.) granted a new trial to a man who…