Shield Law

The Arkansas governor signed late last month an amendment to the state shield law that will protect television and Internet…

A Marion County, Ind., court ruled that news outlets can be ordered to disclose identifying information about those who post…

A state judge in Texas earlier this week quashed a subpoena ordering a journalist to testify in a murder trial,…

A newspaper in West Virginia is attempting to maintain its privilege to refuse to disclose confidential sources after a lower-court…

Urging the New Jersey Supreme Court to reject the Appellate Division's alarmingly restrictive view of who qualifies as a journalist…

In a victory for the state’s five-month-old shield law, a Kansas trial court ruled Tuesday that a reporter for The…

The publisher and two editors of a Montana newspaper are relying on the state’s shield law to quash subpoenas for…

A Buffalo, N.Y., judge issued a subpoena Friday for the notes of a television reporter’s interview with 44-year-old Muzzammil Hassan,…

Two government defendants in a civil rights lawsuit yesterday dropped a subpoena for unedited video footage of a reporter’s interview…

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle signed into law a reporter's shield bill protecting confidential sources and newsgathering materials. Wisconsin's Whistleblower Protection…