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State university must disclose housing requests to landlords 05/19/97 ILLINOIS--The names and addresses of freshman students who contacted Southern Illinois…

Bill would give public more information about doctors 05/19/97 FLORIDA--An act approved on the legislature's last day in session would…

Judge bars media interviews in courthouse hallways and lobbies 05/19/97

Reporter acquitted of obstruction charge 05/19/97 RHODE ISLAND--A Providence Journal-Bulletin reporter was cleared in early May of a charge of…

Suit over public access show cancellation reinstated 05/19/97 IOWA--The U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis (8th Cir.) held in…

Bill would ban photos of shipwrecks, other "human graves" 05/19/97 MICHIGAN--A bill designed to prevent the photographing of human remains,…

Advisory committee can consider items not on agenda 05/19/97 WASHINGTON, D.C.--Nothing in the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which requires advisory…

UPDATE 05/05/97 The U.S. Court of Appeals in New York (2nd Cir.) in late April vacated its ruling that the…

Public, but not press, excluded from drug trial 05/05/97

Officers not liable for taking media along on execution of warrant 05/05/97 SOUTH CAROLINA--In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court…