Nevada Supreme Court Upholds Shield-Law Protections for Digital Outlets
The Nevada Supreme Court ruled Thursday that operating as a digital-only news outlet is not grounds for disqualification from the Silver State’s robust shield laws.
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Trump Campaign Pulls Press Credentials for Bloomberg News Reporters
The Trump campaign Monday revoked press credentials for Bloomberg News reporters after the news organization stood by its decision not to investigate its namesake founder, Mike Bloomberg, or other Democratic candidates running against the incumbent Republican president in 2020.
Read morePlayboy Writer Sues Trump Over Revoked White House Pass
A senior correspondent for Playboy claims in a federal complaint that the White House suspended his press pass because he lacked “decorum” and “professionalism” when conservative social-media influencers shouted at him during a Rose Garden event last month.
Read moreFinal Warrant Targeting Journalist Deemed Illegal by Judge
A California judge on Friday quashed a fifth and final warrant that authorized police to search a journalist’s home, office and phone records, but questions remain as to why the warrants, now deemed illegal, were issued in the first place.
Read moreJudge Unseals Warrant Used to Search Journalist’s Home
More court documents unsealed Tuesday indicate a San Francisco judge signed off on a police raid of a freelance journalist’s home despite knowing the man is a member of the press.
Read moreClosed Court Delays Trial of Ex-White House Counsel
Under fire after she barred press and the public from jury selection at the start of trial for former White House counsel Greg Craig, a federal judge agreed Tuesday to restart jury selection with a new 125-person pool.
Read morePress Advocate: Judge Knew Warrant Targeted Journalist
A newly unsealed warrant shows a California judge should have known he was authorizing police to search a journalist’s office in violation of state and federal laws that prohibit such intrusions, a press-freedom advocate argued Tuesday.
Read morePress Raid
A San Francisco judge postponed a hearing Tuesday on whether to unseal and revoke search warrants in the case of a freelance journalist raided by police after an anonymous source leaked a police report about the death of San Francisco public defender Jeff Adachi, though an attorney for police said the reporter will get his property back.
Read moreInvasion-of-Privacy Case Tests Limits to Investigative Reporting in California
After two years of legal wrangling, a California judge will soon decide if there is enough evidence to try two anti-abortion activists who surreptitiously recorded Planned Parenthood staff supposedly arranging the sale of aborted fetal tissue, in a case some fear will hamstring journalists who go undercover to expose wrongdoing.
Read morePhilippine Agents Arrest Journalist Critical of President
The award-winning head of a Philippine online news site that has aggressively covered President Rodrigo Duterte’s policies was arrested Wednesday by government agents in a libel case.
Read moreSilicon Valley Court Gives Quick Press Access, Part of California Trend
In the new year, the cycle of press access in Santa Clara Superior turned again and the court in the heart of Silicon Valley is once more allowing journalists to see new written proceedings as soon as they arrive, behind the virtual counter, in a virtual box.
Read moreBiggest Court in Nation Opens On-Receipt Media Portal
The biggest court in the nation, Los Angeles Superior Court, opened a media portal Monday intended to give journalists access to new court filings as soon as they are electronically received.
Read moreEU Rights Court Guts Hungary Law on Libelous Links
The European Court of Human Rights blasted Hungarian courts on Tuesday for upholding a libel verdict against a news outlet whose only “crime” was linking to a YouTube video inside a news story.
Read moreSeventh Circuit Punts First Amendment Suit to State Court
In a First Amendment case over press access to new court filings, a Seventh Circuit panel on Tuesday ruled that federal courts lack jurisdiction over such matters and refused to follow the circuit’s landmark 1994 opinion in favor of contemporaneous access.
Read moreFirst Amendment Complaint Filed Over Access Policy in San Jose Courts
Courthouse News filed a First Amendment action against the court clerk in San Jose, California, on Thursday over the practice of holding up access to new civil actions filed in Silicon Valley, where internet giants such as Google and Facebook are based.
Read moreLA Judge Backtracks on Press Photo Blackout in Murder Case
The Los Angeles Times and The Associated Press prevailed Thursday in a challenge of a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge’s order blocking media outlets from publishing photographs from the arraignment of a man who is charged in the murders of homeless men.
Read moreSeventh Circuit Hears First Amendment Arguments Over Press Access
The Seventh Circuit was keenly aware of the national repercussions of the issue before the court at oral arguments Friday in Courthouse News Service’s First Amendment lawsuit seeking same-day access to new civil complaints filed in Chicago.
Read morePlea Deal Kept Sealed Despite Leak on Court Website
A federal judge ruled Thursday that details of a plea deal between an ex-police detective and federal prosecutors will remain sealed to protect the defendant and his family, even though the information was made available on the court’s website and included in a Los Angeles Times article over the weekend.
Read moreLA Times Wins Reprieve From Judge’s Story-Deletion Order
A federal judge on Tuesday threw out his order requiring the Los Angeles Times to delete part of an online article about a plea deal made between an ex-police detective and federal prosecutors – information gleaned from the court’s public computer records.
Read moreNinth Circuit Hears Clash Over First Amendment Access by Press Corps
In a case setting the national press corps against California’s court clerks, a panel of Ninth Circuit judges asked lawyers for the clerks why giving the press timely access to newly filed civil complaints was such a problem. “Has the sky fallen,” asked one judge.
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