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US Immigration judge grants asylum to Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto and son
A FOIA case litigated by attorneys from RCFP and Ballard Spahr may have helped resolve the journalist’s fight for asylum.
March 18, 2024
By
Reporters Committee
Categorized in
Freedom of Information
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We FOIA’d every federal agency for their ‘Glomar’ responses. Here’s what we learned.
RCFP analysis provides important insights into government’s use of “Glomar” doctrine to “neither confirm nor deny” existence of records
March 15, 2024
By
Shawn Musgrave
and
Adam A. Marshall
Categorized in
Freedom of Information
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Steve Coll’s new book on the origins of the Iraq War features transcripts of Saddam’s secret meetings. RCFP attorneys helped the author obtain them.
“The Reporters Committee was just invaluable to this whole project,” said Steve Coll, author of “The Achilles Trap."
February 27, 2024
By
Chris Young
Categorized in
Freedom of Information
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Filmmakers discuss FOIA lawsuit behind ‘Reality Winner’ documentary
RCFP attorneys helped Codebreaker Films obtain audio recordings of FBI agents interrogating Reality Winner.
November 14, 2023
By
Chris Young
Categorized in
Freedom of Information
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Tennessee Valley Authority must disclose executives’ salary records
Marc Perrusquia, represented by an RCFP attorney, sued the Tennessee Valley Authority last year for access to salary records.
October 3, 2023
By
Reporters Committee
Categorized in
Freedom of Information
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Supreme Court narrowly interprets bar on ‘encouraging’ unlawful immigration
It's a positive result, but not one entirely free of lingering concern.
July 6, 2023
By
Emily Hockett
Categorized in
First Amendment
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CIA director personally intervenes in long-forgotten press wiretapping matter (in a good way)
The CIA director said he would personally look into a wiretapping operation in the 1960s against a columnist.
May 8, 2023
By
Gabe Rottman
Categorized in
National Security
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The not-so-hypothetical risk of suppression at the heart of the Hansen case
RCFP Legal Fellow Emily Hockett breaks down oral arguments in U.S. v. Hansen.
April 3, 2023
By
Emily Hockett
Categorized in
First Amendment
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At the high court this week, an important case for immigration reporting
Does the federal bar on encouraging unlawful immigration violate the First Amendment?
March 27, 2023
By
Grayson Clary
Categorized in
First Amendment
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All federal law enforcement agencies need clear, public guidelines to protect journalists
Records RCFP obtained show what can happen when federal law enforcement agencies lack clear rules to protect press freedom.
January 5, 2023
By
Shawn Musgrave
Categorized in
Newsgathering
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