Closed courtrooms

The Washington Post has asked for the transcripts of the closed hearings that led to the dismissal of the government's…

The Justice Department has asked a judge to close a Jan. 7 hearing in the prosecution of five security guards…

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., today refused The Washington Post’s request to open the pretrial proceedings in the manslaughter…

A Washington state judge overseeing a criminal case against another judge excluded the press from the courtroom during deposition testimony…

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. this week decided to exclude the public from oral arguments concerning the…

A California dentist on trial for allegedly fondling more than a dozen patients has moved to exclude the press from…

A Louisiana appeals court ruled this week that the juvenile court proceedings of one of the teenagers involved in the high-profile "Jena…

In response to a media group’s push for greater access to a sweeping public corruption investigation in El Paso, Texas,…

Without bothering to detail why, a U.S. district judge in California on Monday barred the public from a hearing in…

In what was later termed a "misunderstanding," reporters and relatives of a man charged with murdering a California sheriff's deputy…