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 moreThe U.S. government can redact a fact about its predator drone program believed to have been publicly acknowledged since 2013, the Second Circuit ruled unanimously on Thursday.
Read moreThe Pennsylvania Supreme Court is giving those who’ve sought to block release of a grand jury report into allegations of child sexual abuse and cover-ups in the state’s Roman Catholic dioceses a chance to respond to news organizations’ effort to make it public.
Read moreIn 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.
Read morePennsylvania’s top prosecutor will ask the state Supreme Court to move quickly to allow the public release of a major grand jury report on allegations of child sexual abuse in six Roman Catholic dioceses.
Read moreA federal judge on Wednesday ordered President Donald Trump’s now-defunct voting integrity commission to turn over documents to one of its Democratic members by July 18.
Read moreThe Seattle City Council violated public meetings laws by deliberating in private before a special vote on Tuesday that repealed the newly passed employee head tax on large businesses, a suit filed Thursday in King County Superior Court claims.
Read moreDodging claims that it violated open government and transparency laws before voting to spend $10 billion on a contentious water project, California’s largest water supplier said Thursday it will vote again.
Read moreIndicted former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort asked a federal court Monday evening to keep documents from one of his criminal cases kept off limits to a media coalition.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday barred the Associated Press, CNN and the environmental-focused news organization E&E from a national summit on harmful water contaminants.
Read moreTwo years ago, the U.S. government won the right to keep information about its predator-drone program classified. It went to the Second Circuit on Tuesday to keep a portion of the court’s secret ruling redacted.
Read moreIn the midst of a national conflict between news groups and a few powerful state court officials, the Kansas Supreme Court on Thursday came down hard in favor of allowing immediate press and public review of new court records.
Read moreCNN cannot create and disseminate audio recordings of hearings involving President Donald Trump’s embattled attorney Michael Cohen, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA federal judge agreed to unseal documents from 11 cases associated with independent counsel Kenneth Starr’s investigation of President Bill Clinton’s relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Read moreA new report from Earthjustice, the nonprofit environmental law organization, claims that since taking office in January 2017, the Trump administration and Congress have taken deliberate steps to limit or eliminate access to the nation’s courts.
Read moreRoughly a month after a records leak exposed a climate of impunity at the NYPD, the city’s largest police union won a temporary restraining order Wednesday that keeps officers’ disciplinary records from seeing sunlight by more traditional channels.
Read moreA plea for transparency by the U.S. Department of Justice failed to sway a federal judge Tuesday to unseal records in a challenge to Harvard University’s affirmative action policies.
Read moreThirty years after federal courts began offering online access to litigation records through the PACER system, a federal judge ruled Saturday that fees paid by the public for such access cannot fund other courtroom technologies.
Read moreSix state court judges from Franklin and Benton counties in Washington state sued to force the Franklin County court clerk to keep paper files of cases, despite switching to a paperless system late last year.
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