California Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill to create a state fund for the eventual purchase for a right of way to Martins Beach, which stands at the center of a fight between public coastal access and property rights involving a Silicon Valley billionaire.
Read moreCiting public access to Waymo’s trade-secrets lawsuit against Uber over driverless-car technology, a federal judge denied several motions for protective orders over hotly contested evidence Thursday.
Read moreThe checkerboard of public access in Texas courts was the focus of a conference on freedom of information earlier this week that included a Courthouse News Service bureau chief, a local clerk, a legislator and a state Supreme Court clerk.
Read moreTwin cases on First Amendment press access will either proceed separately through the Ninth Circuit or come together before the same panel of judges, depending on the outcome of a motion filed Wednesday.
Read moreA tale of two rulings with similar facts but opposite outcomes is now headed to the Ninth Circuit in search of clarity on the traditional First Amendment right of access to new civil complaints.
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Seeing no need for secrecy with much of the information about Hillary Clinton’s private email server already public, a federal judge cleared the way Thursday for the release of details about the FBI’s email-retrieval efforts.
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Beach access advocates notched another victory against a billionaire attempting to restrict access to a beach in Northern California, even as the fight continues to play out through the courts.
Read moreA federal judge has unsealed the name of the man who claims that former Fox News pundit Andrea Tantaros tapped him to ghostwrite her anti-feminist screed “Tied Up in Knots.”
Read moreA man waging a war on EU state websites retaining his personal data won the right to see court documents submitted by Austria, with the European Court of Justice ruling Tuesday that transparency trumps states’ expectations of confidentiality in judicial proceedings.
Read moreIn an ongoing legal war over access to California court records, the nation’s top newspapers have closed ranks with Courthouse News in fighting for traditional and timely review of new complaints under the First Amendment.
Read moreIn a six-year First Amendment battle, Courthouse News has filed its appellate brief defending U.S. District Judge James Otero’s decision that the court clerk in Ventura must let the press see new civil actions before they are processed.
Read moreIn a case pitting privacy rights against the freedom to public information, a federal judge Thursday weighed whether to restore a company’s access to LinkedIn data so it can tell employers which of their workers are “flight risks.”
Read moreThe Second Circuit revived a records action Thursday that underpins Time Magazine’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s employment of undocumented construction workers.
Read moreAt Thursday’s meeting of California’s Judicial Council, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said she would prioritize improving resources for self-represented litigants, making some court services technology-based, and moving traffic cases out of criminal court over the next 10 years.
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Animal rights advocates on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order the U.S. government to restore online public access to records on companies’ compliance with animal welfare laws.
Read moreThe state court in Santa Clara County is once more cutting public hours for the clerk’s office, shutting its doors at noon on Friday while the clerk’s staff keeps working. The court’s cut in hours comes at a time when the California judiciary budget is expanding modestly and other clerks have returned their offices to full public hours.
Read moreNews cameras have been allowed in state courtrooms in Nevada for years. But whether that open-door policy extends to a cable television show that focuses on Las Vegas prosecutors became its own legal drama, with the state’s high court providing the concluding scene.
Read moreThe Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with what Justice Elena Kagan dubbed the “Kafkaesque” challenge of determining whether a minor charged with murder was prejudiced when his family was barred from entering the courtroom during jury selection.
Read moreA long-planned statewide database making it easy to access court records online from all of Texas’ 254 counties could be thwarted by a bill working its way through the state House.
Read moreA Republican lawmaker has proposed a bill that would let Texas ignore public information requests from people who are not permanent residents of the state.
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