Secret plea agreements

A coalition of media organizations and journalists led by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has filed petitions…

The U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans (5th Cir.) heard arguments Monday in an appeal brought by Hearst Newspapers…

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Tuesday refused a Catholic diocese’s emergency request to stay an order unsealing court…

A federal judge presiding over the prosecution of Thomas Kontogiannis, a friend of former Congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham, released a…

A federal court on Thursday denied a newspaper’s request to intervene and unseal records in a sweeping corruption investigation in El Paso, Tex.,…

A long-simmering federal inquiry into public corruption in El Paso, Tex. has apparently yielded nine guilty pleas so far. Local attorneys, elected…

A committee formed by the Federal Judiciary to consider whether criminal plea agreements should be removed from public access on…

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