Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Committee To Protect Journalists v. CIA.  The case concerns FOIA requests made by CPJ and the Knight Institute to the CIA, FBI, NSA, ODNI, and State Department.  The FOIA requests [...]

Participated with the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and 166 other media organizations, outlets, and individuals in a letter to the county attorney of Polk County, Iowa, in the pending criminal case State of Iowa v. Andrea M. Sahouri.  Ms. Sahouri is a reporter for the Des Moines Register who was covering a local [...]

Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in Van Buren v. United States.  This is the first time the Supreme Court has considered the appropriate scope of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).  In this case, a police officer in Georgia [...]

Participated with the Reporters Committee and 50 other media organizations and outlets in a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom and local officials urging them to take immediate, concrete steps to end the police arrests and attacks on credentialed and clearly identifiable journalists that occurred during civil protests.  The letter makes the same legal [...]

Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Courthouse News Service v. Schaefer.  This case concerns the First Amendment right of timely access to civil complaints.  CNS filed suit against the clerks of two Virginia circuit courts after [...]

Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Cato Institute v. SEC.  This case concerns a challenge by the Cato Institute to an SEC regulation and policy that precludes settling parties from ever publicly denying the allegations made [...]

Participated with the Reporters Committee and 39 other media organizations and outlets in a letter to Denver officials urging them to take immediate, concrete steps to end the police arrests and attacks on credentialed and clearly identifiable journalists that occurred during civil protests.  The letter makes the same legal arguments as similar letters sent [...]

Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, in Dababneh v. Lopez.  This case concerns a defamation action brought by a member of the California State Assembly against a woman who accused him of sexual misconduct in a complaint to the [...]

Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the Arkansas Supreme Court in Jones v. Professional Background Screening Association.  The brief focuses on the First Amendment right of access to court records and whether the release of certain records should be governed by Arkansas Supreme Court Administrative Order [...]

Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the Ohio Court of Appeals in Gibson Bros. v. Oberlin College.  The case concerns a defamation lawsuit brought by a bakery against Oberlin College following a student protest that accused the bakery of engaging in racial profiling and discrimination.  The [...]