Secrecy

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

Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the Justice Department will move to restrict use of the state secrets privilege…

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

The Obama Administration’s approach to transparency in government is, thus far, only a slight improvement over the Bush Administration’s policies,…

In the midst of an extensive overhaul of its child protection agency, New Jersey has announced it will no longer…

A federal judge in California conducted an entire trial this week behind closed doors, the Los Angeles Times reports.

A Maryland appellate court on Friday upheld a trial court's order allowing a Baltimore television station to copy two recordings…

A federal judge in Denver has denied without public comment a request for a broad restraining order aimed at The…

A Manhattan judge considering whether to unseal approximately one million pages of documents related to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks…

A Manhattan federal court will hear oral arguments Wednesday on whether more than a million pages of documents related to the…