A federal judge pushed government lawyers Tuesday to explain why investigative bureau staffing has not grown commensurate with the tidal wave of Freedom of Information Act requests that courts are now enforcing.
Read moreWith the urging of activists and court watchers, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee could soon reintroduce legislation that would bring cameras into federal appeals courts.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Arizona Department of Corrections’ policy of turning off an execution chamber microphone during lethal injection goes against the public’s right of access to government proceedings.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel denied for-profit immigration prison operator Geo Group’s request for relief from a federal judge’s order compelling production of its financial records in a labor dispute with Washington state, given the state’s promise to keep sensitive information from becoming public.
Read moreIn a decision that will expand the power of courts to make government agencies post information online, the Ninth Circuit this week reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the removal of animal welfare compliance data from a U.S. Department of Agriculture website.
Read moreThe Illinois Opportunity Project brought a federal complaint over a Montana executive order that requires state-contract bidders to disclose political contributions to candidates or referenda supported. The challenger says the corporations that support it could suffer injury if donor information is publicly disclosed.
Read moreAccomplishing chrysalis in reverse, the court in Youngstown was caught at the moment it was metamorphosing from a traditional box-on-the-counter paper access court to a delayed access efiling court, a terrible sight to behold.
Read moreMore than a decade after his child sex-abuse case shocked the nation, the extraordinarily light sentence given to politically connected Jeffrey Epstein continues to embarrass multiple presidents, a prince and a powerful attorney.
Read moreSouth Dakota journalists seeking data on food stamps under the Freedom of Information Act suffered a reversal Monday at the Supreme Court.
Read moreThe California Coastal Commission fined one of the swankiest hotels on the Central Coast $1.6 million for a continued pattern of preventing access to a nearby public beach.
Read moreFriends of the Crazy Mountains claims in a federal complaint that the U.S. Forest Service illegally relinquished public access to two trails in the Custer Gallatin National Forest, allowing private landowners to deny access to public lands.
Read moreHer Royal Majesty’s courts are disappearing — and going online. Sold-off Victorian courthouses have become swanky cocktail bars and high-end cafés. Less appealing concrete-clad courthouses are simply gone — razed to the ground and replaced by new developments. Others have been turned into apartments, and people sleep and eat where once judges, solicitors and court recorders worked.
Read moreCalifornia’s Justice Department will begin releasing police misconduct records created before Jan. 1, 2019, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Friday under a new police transparency law that garnered the ire of police unions across the state.
Read moreAmid a battlefield stalemate in Afghanistan, the U.S. military has stopped releasing information often cited to measure progress in America’s longest war, including body counts, calling it of little value in fighting the Taliban insurgency.
Read morePartisan jabs and arguments over socialism dominated a House hearing Tuesday that was otherwise meant to open up documents in the FBI probe of President Donald Trump.
Read moreAn Alaskan moose hunter who challenged a regulation that bans him from using a hovercraft while on federal land won a reversal Tuesday from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read morePredicting that the public will not see the full report on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections, Senator Lindsey Graham noted Monday that material covered by executive privilege will likely be kept under wraps.
Read moreFuture public-land sales will involve consideration, for the first time, of public access for hunting, fishing and other recreational activities, the secretary of the interior announced Thursday.
Read moreIn the first decision since a major fault line opened in the legal landscape around the First Amendment, a federal judge in Virginia has ruled that its powerful writ reaches past the state courthouse door.
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