Anti-abortion activist David Daleiden has scored a victory in the Ninth Circuit, with judges finding a lower court’s order blocking his access to public information about researchers associated with the University of Washington’s Birth Defects Research Laboratory was too broad.
Read moreNew Jersey newspapers will have another crack at forcing lame duck Gov. Chris Christie to turn over emails related to Bridgegate, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.
Read moreA federal judge hastened completion of a documentary decades in the making about the FBI’s role in the Vietnam anti-war movement Thursday by ordering the agency to churn out nearly 3,000 pages of documents a month.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union is demanding that four federal agencies release information about an executive order President Donald Trump reportedly planned to sign carving out religious-freedom exemptions the group says target the gay community.
Read moreA federal judge ordered the State, Justice and Defense Departments to speed up their responses to a government watchdog’s requests for records on the legal justification for the Trump administration’s missile strike on Syria in April.
Read moreAnti-abortion activist David Daleiden asked the Ninth Circuit to void a lower court’s order blocking his access to public information about the University of Washington’s Birth Defects Research Laboratory, arguing the order is too broad and will gut the Public Records Act.
Read moreA California Senate committee unanimously passed a bill requiring police departments who have chosen to use body cameras to establish procedures for footage to be released.
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A Chicago-based police accountability group claims in court that the city’s police department has once again refused to hand over documents showing how it spent money from a secret fund of seized cash.
Read moreAn Indiana watchdog group claims in court that the governor’s office is stalling on a public records request for communications between former Gov. Mike Pence and then-President-elect Donald Trump about a deal to keep Carrier Corporation jobs from going to Mexico.
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A law student seeking information about police use of sounds cannons has struck a settlement that will force New York City to comply with electronically filed open-records requests.
Read moreA journalist and documentary filmmaker sued the Justice Department for the release of FBI records about a surveillance program she says targeted Arab-American communities outside Chicago before 9/11.
Read moreTwo government watchdog groups sued President Donald Trump on Thursday, claiming the Twitter-loving leader of the free world and his staff skirt accountability rules when it comes to preserving presidential communications.
Read moreTexas Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed 50 bills last week, dissolving a committee studying women’s health needs and axing the only government transparency measure that survived the legislative session.
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Describing a shroud of secrecy over the death of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, a Virginia-based group brought an open-records complaint against D.C.’s mayor and attorney general.
Read moreAccusing the state school of violating public records law, a group of George Mason University students and alumni brought a lawsuit to shed light on the support it gets from billionaire energy tycoons Charles and David Koch.
Read moreConservationists claim in a federal complaint that the State Department has for five years left them waiting for public documents on the path of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Read moreA nonpartisan government watchdog has brought a federal complaint for access to any policy discussions Ivanka Trump might have had with government officials before she officially joined her father’s administration.
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A Minnesota attorney and journalist claims in court that the Department of Homeland Security has refused to hand over public records about a tour that hosted imams and Muslim community leaders at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport.
Read moreA conservative Massachusetts sheriff who has pledged to supply federal deportation efforts with state resources faces a court complaint after ignoring a public-records request.
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