In our battle over access to new court pleadings in New Mexico, comments from the bench were remarkably perceptive on all the legal points and yet the judge ultimately applied his own experience, a tendency that has both helped and hurt our cases.
In the many First Amendment cases brought by Courthouse News, comments and questions from the bench represent the judges unplugged, revealing their thoughts on the conflict before them and possibly suggesting where they might be headed.
Comments from the bench are sometimes lost once a hearing is over, and the wait begins for a written ruling. But they are often telling.
In the long war between Courthouse News and an organized lobby of state court officials, the field of conflict is quiet right now. And so it is time to get out of town.
San Francisco, Twitter Blue, Google and a beep. They are all part of a great shift.
In the great of arc of litigation between this news service and court clerks over access to newsmaking complaints, a most remarkable metamorphosis has taken place in Florida where clerks and administrators have transformed what was the worst access in the nation into what is now the best.
A hearing before Second Circuit judges Richard Sullivan and Pierre Leval raised a question about where consideration of our First Amendment case stood in the context of history and reality in the Second Circuit itself.
A lost wallet is found in a clean, peaceful, slow-moving society on Okinawa Island that gives a long-needed break from the American grind.
New software that is the tech topic du jour is commonly described as “powerful.” It is part of a slow progression of change now reaching into the domain of professionals.
Sunk 1,000 years ago, a Viking ship recovered from the muck is sleek, beautiful in its lines, and built for speed.
The daily rhythm of life for a French family in Brittany is played out in the kitchen, at the table.
