Lawyers for three Arkansas sheriff’s deputies accused of privacy violations over the release of records about sex abuse claims against “19 Kids and Counting” reality TV star Josh Duggar argued Wednesday before the Eighth Circuit that they are entitled to qualified immunity.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Monday seemed poised to lift a court order blocking an anti-abortion activist’s access to public information about people associated with a University of Washington fetal-tissue research lab.
Read moreA British parliamentary committee reprimanded former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Thursday for failing to report income within time limits set by Parliament.
Read moreA lawyer for New York City resisted pressure from a judge Tuesday to confirm or deny that the NYPD targeted protesters with cellphone-surveillance technology.
Read moreA federal judge ordered a seal on the 187-page funding application that Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest submitted to keep Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, calling it undisputed that the agency “has not received a FOIA request for records of the awarded contract/grant.”
Read moreIn a late Friday afternoon filing, Justice Department’s lawyers appeared to be challenging a Maryland federal judge’s decision to allow a case accusing President Donald Trump of violating the U.S. Constitution to move forward to legal discovery.
Read moreAfter the Miami Herald ran a bombshell exposé on disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex crimes on Wednesday, a New York federal judge released a transcript showing an effort to keep the paper from learning about another accuser’s case.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday denied Colorado’s bid to keep a baker from using public records law in a lawsuit in which he claims he’s being unfairly targeted by the state for refusing business from LGBT customers.
Read moreAn anti-death penalty group paints a grim picture in a new report of states’ attempts to keep specifics of their execution process hidden from the public. However, supporters of the death penalty say the situation described in the report is a crisis of the anti-death penalty lobby’s own making.
Read moreA coalition of civil rights groups brought a complaint Thursday demanding information on how immigration authorities use the Boston Police Department’s gang database to target black and Latino residents.
Read moreFighting to keep a lid on search warrants that justified the raids on former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, prosecutors told a federal judge Thursday that ceding to the demand by seven news outlets could undermine an ongoing grand jury investigation.
Read moreA conservation group sued Los Angeles County on Tuesday seeking emails, text messages and other documents exchanged with the developer behind a 12,000-acre planned community on the edge of the Mojave Desert.
Read moreThe Fourth Estate lost a court battle Tuesday to learn what allowances members of European Parliament get for travel, subsistence and parliamentary assistance.
Read moreA pair of gun-rights activists claim in court that the attorney general of Massachusetts cannot use her investigation into 3D-printed guns to withhold public records.
Read moreFive advocacy groups brought a federal complaint Thursday demanding immediate records access related to the toxic waste sites known to exist at the Fort Bliss Army Base, soon to be the home of a detention camp for thousands of immigrant families under the Trump administration.
Read moreColumbia Riverkeeper brought a federal FOIA complaint against the U.S. Department of Energy for refusing to deliver information on its financial help to a Chinese company that wants to build a fracked-gas-to-methanol refinery on the Columbia River.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Tuesday that body-camera footage and other records related to an officer’s fatal shooting of an Iowa woman three years ago will be unsealed and made public.
Read moreCivil rights groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday to compel the New York City Police Department to turn over records giving insight into its controversial gang database, which police have claimed do not exist despite testimony suggesting otherwise.
Read moreThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has claimed a victory in the fight for transparency after the Federal Circuit said it will now allow the public immediate access to briefs filed with the court.
Read moreThe National Archives and Records Administration says it won’t be able to complete its review of nearly 1 million documents regarding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time in the George W. Bush White House until October.
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