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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…

An attorney for former model Christie Brinkley's children will ask a judge Thursday to close her impending divorce trial, hoping to keep…

For the seemingly dozenth time in the last few months, yet another move toward secrecy by embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame…

The Ninth Circuit earlier this week issued an opinion with what seemed like a pretty straightforward reading of the current…