Participated in an amicus letter (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) sent to the mayor and acting city attorney of Medford, Ore., concerning the case City of Medford v. Ehrlich.  The letter challenges their prosecution of Jefferson Public Radio journalist April Ehrlich, who was arrested in September 2020 by Medford police officers while lawfully [...]

Participated in an amicus letter (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the Supreme Court of Washington in Does 1-6 v. Seattle Police Department, et al.  The case concerns six Seattle police officers who attended the “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021. The Seattle Police Department opened misconduct [...]

Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in National Press Photographers Association v. McCraw, a First Amendment challenge to Texas’s drone regulations.  The brief highlights the uses of drones in journalism and argues that Chapter 423 of [...]

Participated in an amicus letter brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) in In re Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation, a multi-district litigation consolidated in the Southern District of New York.  The amicus letter relates to a second amended complaint filed by the state co-plaintiffs in Texas, et al. v. Google LLC.  The second amended complaint [...]

Participated in a letter (with the Project on Government Oversight and other amici) to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., urging him to make live audio access permanent at the Supreme Court.  As the letter notes, providing live audio access to cases during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has convincingly demonstrated the [...]

Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to grant certiorari in Frasier v. Evans.  In March 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that the right to record police officers in public in the performance of [...]

Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the New Jersey Supreme Court in Rivera v. Union County Prosecutor’s Office.  This case concerns whether internal affairs records are disclosable under New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”) or the common law.  The specific records sought relate to an [...]

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 hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation.  The brief addresses whether “scraping” a public website for data violates the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).  The panel in this case previously [...]

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 Faulk v. City of St. Louis.  The case arises from a 2018 lawsuit that former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Michael Faulk filed against the City of St. Louis after he was [...]

Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in CPI v. FOMB.  This lawsuit was brought by the Puerto Rico-based journalism nonprofit Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (“CPI”) against Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board (“Board”).  At issue is whether [...]