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Recent news
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News stories recently posted throughout the First Amendment Center Online.
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Army to limit news-media access at Palin book-signing
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Associated Press counsel calls proposed reporter pools, restrictions on interviews on North Carolina base 'unlawful and unacceptable.'
11.20.09
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File shows FBI kept tabs on Studs Terkel for decades
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Most documents reveal agency's efforts to determine if well-known liberal writer was a communist.
11.19.09
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Feud not mentioned in Obama interview with Fox News
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Correspondent Major Garrett calls himself a 'conscientious objector' in his network's fight with the White House.
11.19.09
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Investigators raid NYC newspapers' circulation, delivery offices
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Raids were part of district attorney's corruption probe into powerful union that has long faced accusations of ties to organized crime.
11.18.09
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Wis. releases grenade video, settles lawsuit
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After guards were caught on tape tossing crowd-control device into prisoner's cell, officials had refused to give Associated Press a copy.
11.17.09
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Calif. court bars 2 paparazzi from coming near Nicole Richie
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Judge had said she was concerned about impeding photographers' First Amendment rights, but her concerns evaporated when both men agreed they could abide by restraining order.
11.17.09
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Gates blocks release of detainee-abuse photos
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Obama administration files brief with high court claiming Defense secretary has power to halt disclosure.
11.16.09
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W.Va. high court: Ex-chief justice's e-mails aren't public records
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Justices rule lower court judge erred in ordering release of five of 13 messages sought by AP because none of e-mails involved official business.
11.13.09
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7th Circuit tosses bid for names of Chicago cops
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Journalist had requested names of 662 officers accused of repeatedly abusing civilians.
11.11.09
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Ill. prosecutors claim journalism students paid 2 witnesses
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Northwestern students and professor David Protess deny allegations, calling court filings part of 'smear campaign' by Cook County attorneys.
11.11.09
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Use-of-force police reports are public records, N.J. panel rules
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Open-records activist, others argue that access to reports helps public decide whether force was justified.
11.10.09
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Ill. prosecutors probe journalism students' grades
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Cook County attorneys say they want to know whether professor who founded Medill Innocence Project gives students better grades if they make case that a prisoner is innocent.
11.09.09
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S.C. high court says Sanford ethics probe is public
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State commission is investigating governor's travel, including rendezvous with lover from Argentina.
11.07.09
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Pa. high court throws out $3.5M defamation verdict
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Justices order new trial in lawsuit against newspaper, saying they were sufficiently troubled by role played in case by two judges at center of unrelated juvenile-justice scandal.
11.05.09
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Kan. newspaper fights to protect jailhouse interview
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County attorney seeks notes, testimony from Dodge City Daily Globe reporter Claire O'Brien, who spoke with man charged in fatal shooting.
11.05.09
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First Amendment, Second Amendment values jostle
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By Allie Diffendal Panel examines newspaper's publication of Tennessee concealed-carry permit database, effect on gun owners.
11.04.09
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N.C. appeals court backs state treasurer in records dispute
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Majority finds State Employees Association failed to specify which documents were being wrongfully withheld by treasurer's office.
11.04.09
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Supporters of sealing Tenn. gun database seek very same records
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AP study finds that list of more than 257,000 handgun-permit holders was recently requested by state Republican Party and direct mail contractor that has done work for GOP.
11.03.09
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Obama administration seeks to block wiretap lawsuit
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Invoking state-secrets privilege, Justice Department says allowing case to proceed would jeoparding intelligence work.
11.02.09
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High court turns away another appeal in fight over Conn. diocese files
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Justices again refuse to stop release of documents generated for sexual-abuse lawsuits against priests in Bridgeport diocese.
11.02.09
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Ariz. high court: Hidden data in public records must be disclosed
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Justices overturn lower court ruling that found 'metadata' wasn't subject to state open-records law.
10.30.09
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Fox News Channel, Obama administration talking
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Meanwhile, CNN's Campbell Brown presses White House adviser on what administration thinks of left-leaning MSNBC if it proclaims Fox News biased to the right.
10.30.09
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Senators announce deal with White House on media shield
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Charles Schumer says agreement 'strikes the right balance between national-security concerns and the public's right to know.'
10.30.09
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Police launch probe after bullet hits CNN commentator's home
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Lou Dobbs says he had been receiving threatening phone calls for weeks, connects gunshot to his advocacy for crackdown on illegal immigration and to his opponents' rhetoric.
10.30.09
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Mont. coach ends silent treatment toward student reporters
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Bobby Hauck stopped talking to Kaimin staffers after campus newspaper reported on alleged assault by two football players.
10.29.09
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Fla. high court won't halt release of NCAA-Fla. State documents
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Lower court had ordered college-athletics organization to make records from academic-cheating probe public by this afternoon unless it could win stay.
10.28.09
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Records in N.H. slaying case to remain private for now
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News media had sought access to police affidavits, but judge delays release until suspects are indicted or until Jan. 3, saying disclosing info now could reveal scope of state's probe.
10.28.09
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