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Beyond Pepsi: USA Today photog captures Denver protest scene
Michelle Obama may have held the national spotlight in Denver yesterday, but USA Today videographer Garrett Hubbard captured some pretty harrowing…Categorized in Newsgathering -
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Tennessee officer accused of snooping on reporter
A Tennessee Highway Patrol officer apparently ran an unauthorized background check on a reporter who had written about ongoing agency woes, The (Nashville)Tennessean said.Categorized in Newsgathering -
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FBI attorney says phone records request was a mistake
Valerie E. Caproni, general counsel and top attorney for the FBI, has told the Washington Times that using “exigent letters”…Categorized in Libel and privacy -
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Sheriff charges newspaper $10 for FOIA denial
A Michigan sheriff apparently took Freedom of Information Act denials to a new, unfriendly extreme when he charged a newspaper…Categorized in Freedom of information -
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Bush advisers favor a veto of shield law
President Bush's top advisers signaled last week they would urge him to veto a reporter's shield bill, according to The Associated Press.Categorized in Protecting sources and materials -
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Detroit mayor to be deposed in FOI suit after all
Responding to a proverbial elbow jab to the ribcage from lawyers for the Detroit Free Press, embattled Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will testify…Categorized in Freedom of information -
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Judge sides with Va. woman who posted Social Security numbers on Web
A federal judge has ruled in favor of a Virginia woman who posted on her Web site the Social Security numbers…Categorized in Libel and privacy -
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Global round-up: From Beijing to London in media law news
As foreign athletes, sports fans and hordes of journalists look toward home with the closing of the Olympics this weekend, free-press…Categorized in Newsgathering -
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Media groups push for access to AMD v. Intel case, yet again
For the second time in nearly three years, a coalition of news groups and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the…Categorized in Court access -
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Embattled judge steps down from bench
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on Wednesday deemed embattled Superior Court Judge Ernest B. Murphy “permanently disabled" and officially…Categorized in Libel and privacy