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Court requires transparency in lawsuit brought by Maine healthcare workers fighting COVID-19 vaccine mandate
Local news outlets, represented by RCFP attorneys, successfully challenged the healthcare workers’ use of pseudonyms in court.
July 15, 2022
By
Ceoli Jacoby
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Court Access
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Four years after US Supreme Court’s decision in Carpenter, a Fourth Amendment in disarray?
RCFP examines how lower courts have implemented the Supreme Court's 2018 decision in a case concerning location surveillance.
June 21, 2022
By
Grayson Clary
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First Amendment
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Police camera surveillance threatens First Amendment interests
Warrantless, long-term, targeted surveillance can chill newsgathering and impair the ability of reporters to guarantee source confidentiality.
February 22, 2021
By
Mailyn Fidler
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First Amendment
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First Circuit: Massachusetts can’t ban secret recording of law enforcement in public
RCFP had urged the court to rule the state’s ban on such recording unconstitutional.
December 17, 2020
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Reporters Committee
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Newsgathering
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