Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Machado Amadis v. Dept. of Justice. The case presents the first opportunity for the D.C. Circuit to address the Freedom of Information Act’s new foreseeable harm standard, which [...]
Participated in a letter (with the Reporters Committee and other news media organizations) sent to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding EPA’s proposed changes to its FOIA regulations. The letter notes that the proposed rule contains provisions that would undermine the Freedom of Information Act, are impermissible under clear and binding D.C. Circuit Court [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in ALDF v. Reynolds. This case concerns the Iowa “ag-gag” statute, which criminalizes “agricultural production facility fraud” – gaining access to a facility under false pretenses to report on health and [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in two related cases, Washington Post v. U.S. Dept. of Justice and ACLU v. U.S. Dept. of Justice. The case concerns motions to unseal a contempt proceeding that the DOJ reportedly [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in United States v. Schulte. This case concerns public access to certain search warrants and affidavits in the criminal prosecution of Joshua Schulte, a former CIA employee accused of illegally accessing [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the News Media Alliance and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Washington Post v. David J. McManus, Jr. The brief states the district court correctly held that Maryland’s Online Electioneering Transparency and Accountability Act violates traditional First Amendment principles. The [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the California Supreme Court in National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter v. City of Hayward. The case involves a request by the lawyers’ guild for written and electronic police records, including police body-worn camera (BWC) footage. The city [...]
Participated in an amicus letter (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of San Francisco in In Re: Ex Parte Application of Non-Party Journalist Bryan Carmody. The brief supports a motion by Carmody to compel the return of protected work product, [...]
Participated in an intervenors/amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the Belfast High Court in In re Fine Point Films & Trevor Birney. The case concerns filmmakers Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, who were arrested for referencing an unpublished draft of a government report they received anonymously in their film [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in CIR v. SEPTA. This case concerns a policy of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (“SEPTA”) that bans certain advertisements on the Philadelphia-area transit system based on their content. The brief [...]
