Documents Stay Sealed in Oregon Train Attack Case
PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) – Sworn statements that led to the indictment of a man accused of killing two people on
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Times Fights to See Trump Transition Team’s Log of Visitors
Clamoring to learn who met with the Trump-Pence Transition Team in their Washington offices ahead of Inauguration Day, The New York Times brought a federal complaint to access U.S. Secret Service’s visitors log.
Read moreNo Forfeiture-Database Backup With Millions on the Line, NYPD Admits
New York City is one power surge away from losing all of the data police have on millions of dollars in unclaimed forfeitures, a city attorney admitted to a flabbergasted judge on Tuesday.
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Judge Paves Way for Challenges to DOJ Opinion Secrecy
Resolving a transparency catch-22, a federal judge dismissed a case about legal opinions from the Justice Department but affirmed the power of courts to intervene in more specific circumstances.
Read moreJudge Peels Off Layer of CIA Torture Secrecy
Nearly three years after the Senate chronicled the CIA’s torture program, a federal judge ordered the government Wednesday to disclose certain documents referenced in the report.
Read moreWallenberg Relatives Vow to Appeal Russian Court Ruling
Relatives of Raoul Wallenberg say they will appeal a Russian court’s verdict to turn down their lawsuit asking the KGB’s main successor agency to provide full information about the Swedish diplomat who disappeared after helping at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews escape the Holocaust.
Read moreMedia Outlets Sue Washington State Lawmakers Over Stonewalled Records Requests
Legislators in Washington state are failing to produce calendars, emails and other correspondence under the Public Records Act, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by The Associated Press and other media organizations.
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Treasury Secretary’s Eclipse Getaway Fuels Records Suit
A government watchdog filed suit Monday to expose public records on a taxpayer-funded trip Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin took with his wife took to see the historic eclipse.
Read moreJudge Nails Trump’s Election Commission on Records Handling
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration Wednesday to show more evidence that its new commission tasked with investigating election fraud is complying with public-disclosure laws.
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Policy Groups Fight for Records on Trump Voter Commission
President Donald Trump has directed the government to investigate his theories on voter fraud but is withholding public records on the commission, two policy groups claim in a federal complaint.
Read more9th Circuit OKs Abortion Foe’s Look at Lab Researchers’ Files
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 moreLabor Groups Demand Records on LA Sheriff’s Fight Against Sanctuary Bill
Two labor groups have sued Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell seeking a court order to release communications between his department and the Trump administration about California’s sanctuary bill.
Read moreN.J. Court Revives Suit Seeking Bridgegate Emails
New 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 moreFBI Ordered to Work Faster on Filmmaker’s Records Request
A 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 moreACLU Fights for Memos Behind Religious-Liberty Order
The 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 moreJudge Fast-Tracks Demand for Legal Basis of Syria Strikes
A 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 moreAbortion Foe Takes Fight for Records to 9th Circuit
Anti-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 moreBill to Require Release of Body-Cam Footage Clears Hurdle
A 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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Police Watchdog Demands Records on Chicago’s Secret Fund
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.
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