In no uncertain terms, members of the California Coastal Commissioner put property owners in a wealthy enclave north of Los Angeles on notice that their days of blocking the public from accessing an 8-mile stretch of pristine coast will soon be over.
Read moreThe 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 moreIn 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 moreThe Connecticut Supreme Court ordered the release Tuesday of police records on the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, including a book by the shooter Adam Lanza.
Read moreThe Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a 2nd Circuit ruling involving the application of the First Amendment to the private operator of a public-access television channel.
Read moreThe publishers of New Hampshire’s top news outlets took the state to court Friday for stonewalling their access to a secret list of police officers whose records of misconduct might raise eyebrows.
Read moreCourthouse 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 moreAmong a list of dozens of cases rejected Monday by the Supreme Court is that of a California billionaire trying to make the state pay to use his property as a beach-access point.
Read moreDoes a politician have the right to block critics from their official social media pages? That question was asked of an appeals court for the first time Wednesday.
Read moreThe 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 moreWith hundreds of miles of picturesque and accessible coastline, California has an abundance of beaches for all of its 39 million residents plus tourists to enjoy. But while the state’s constitution guarantees a public right of beach access and there are over 1,000 access points statewide, low-income and minority communities have long struggled to connect with the Golden State’s majestic shoreline.
Read moreThe name of the physician picked to attend a state inmate’s execution can remain secret, even from drug makers suing to ban the use of their products in the twice-postponed lethal injection, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Read moreA state court judge heard arguments Friday over his initial finding a San Diego environmental attorney should be awarded nearly $1 million in attorney’s fees for successfully bringing claims in a novel case against the California Coastal Commission over failed disclosures.
Read moreAs expected, environmentalists have lobbied to intervene in a settlement between the California Coastal Commission and a wealthy beach community that continues to deny public access to a pristine beach in Santa Barbara County.
Read moreA 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.
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