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 Philadelphia Bail Fund v. Arraignment Court Magistrate Judges.  In this case, Philadelphia Bail Fund (PBF), a nonprofit organization advocating for reform of Philadelphia’s bail system, brought suit to challenge the constitutionality [...]

Participated in comments (with the Reporters Committee and other media groups) filed with the U.S. Office of Management and Budget regarding proposed changes to OMB’s “Guidelines” on FOIA fees.  The proposed updates (prompted by a recent lawsuit) are limited to a small number of issues.  These comments address two issues: (1) the elimination of [...]

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 Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Vaught.  In this case, plaintiffs ALDF and three other groups challenge the constitutionality of Arkansas’s ag-gag statute.  The statute creates a civil cause of action [...]

Participated with the Reporters Committee and 113 other media organizations and outlets in a letter to Minnesota 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 states that the right of the press to document police [...]

Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Perry v. Hollingsworth.  The case concerns access to the video recording of the 2010 Proposition 8 trial.  In April 2017, KQED moved to unseal the videotapes, but the district court [...]

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 Husch Blackwell v. WMATA.  This case concerns the “consultant corollary” and Exemption 5 of FOIA and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s Public Access to Records Policy (“PARP”).  Husch Blackwell LLP [...]

Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the New York Appellate Division in Center on Privacy & Technology v. New York City Police Dept.  This case arises out of a public records request that CPT made to the NYPD under New York’s Freedom of Information Law.  The NYPD claimed [...]

Participated in a letter of support (with four TV network affiliate associations, RTDNA, and SPJ) to WJFW-TV, an NBC affiliate in Rhinelander, Wis.  The letter supports the station in its defense of defamation claims raised in a lawsuit by the Trump presidential campaign, which disagreed with a political advertisement broadcast by the station.  The [...]

Participated in an application (with the Reporters Committee and other media groups) submitted to the European Court of Human Rights for leave to intervene in Biancardi v. Italy.  The case concerns the application of the right to be forgotten against an online newspaper.  The applicant in the case (who claims his right to freedom [...]

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 Soderberg v. Carrion.  This case concerns the Maryland Code of Criminal Procedure’s “Broadcast Ban,” which prohibits recording or broadcasting proceedings in a trial court or before a grand jury.     The plaintiffs [...]