During Trump's first term, DHS monitored journalists covering the border and attempted to obtain the identity of reporters’ ...

Background: In April 2024, the Nashville Banner moved to intervene in a criminal court case in Davidson County Criminal Court for the limited purpose of seeking to unseal three documents related to a ...

Background: In 2018, professor Lawrence Kalbers filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking access to records from the U.S. Department of Justice concerning its high-profile prosecution of ...

Background: A trial court in the District of Columbia used a “husher” to prevent the public from hearing any of the answers that prospective jurors gave to questions posed to them during jury ...

Background: On two separate occasions in 2019, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents conducted warrantless searches of Ezhil Kamaldoss’s electronic devices at John F. Kennedy International Airport ...

From the Fall 2004 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 21. From the Fall 2004 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 21. Satire, caricature and parody are forms of art that rely on blurring the ...

Journalists who lie on employment applications to gain access to private facilities for newsgathering activities are not protected by… Journalists who lie on employment applications to gain access to ...

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From the Winter 2003 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 10. From the Winter 2003 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 10. At first glance, the British photographer may have appeared as just ...

Police departments across the nation are implementing body-worn camera programs in an effort to create a more objective record of officers’ activities. As recent news events have proved, these videos ...