A week after a federal judge ordered Michael Cohen’s release, federal prosecutors asked Thursday to close the case and agreed to abandon the gag order that sparked the First Amendment battle.
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Police unions failed Tuesday to block a civil rights group from publishing thousands of NYPD disciplinary records, broadening a repository first made public this weekend by the ProPublica.
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Already the subject of countless news reports and book reviews, Mary Trump’s memoir “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” has been blessed for publication on the eve of its release.
Read moreOverturning a key aspect of an extraordinary restraining order blocking publication of a book by the president’s niece Mary Trump, a New York appeals court ruled on Wednesday night that Simon & Schuster is not bound by it.
Read moreThe Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University sued the Departments of State, Justice, et al. in federal court for “information related to the Trump administration’s prepublication review process for books by current and former staffers, which was originally intended to prevent the disclosure of confidential information.”
Read morePresident Trump’s brother has asked a New York City judge to prevent the president’s niece from publishing a tell-all book, which is expected to be released soon.
Read moreFive military and U.S. intelligence community veterans took legal aim Tuesday at the government’s system of prepublication review, calling it rife with dysfunction and inequality.
Read moreRuling against a law firm that issues reports on export controls, a federal judge refused to block possible restrictions on the dissemination of military blueprints, even for materials in the public domain.
Read moreA week after he barred an Iowa newspaper from reporting on public court records, a justice of the state Supreme Court Tuesday lifted his controversial order Tuesday.
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A New Jersey appeals court refused Monday to let state officials reinstate months of media interference that erupted when the mother of a kindergartner who brought drugs to school in his lunchbox handed custody records to a reporter.
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Wrapping up a battle on prior restraint this week, a New Jersey judge threw out an attempt to censor a reporter given custody records about a kindergartner who brought heroin to school.
Read moreA reporter who obtained confidential child-custody documents testified before a New Jersey judge Wednesday that the child’s mother gave him the materials he is accused of stealing.
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