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Friday, August 24, 2007 2:52 PM

Hawaii joins Shield law effort

A movement has started in Hawaii to pass a shiled law to protect the state's reporters from disclosing anonymous sources or unpublished work. The Honolulu Advertiser has the story.  
posted by DaveAeikens | 0 Comments
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 2:56 AM

Court Denies Re-Hearing in K-State Case

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday announced it would not re-hear the case of two former Kansas State University students who sued their school when their newspaper adviser was removed from his post.A three-judge panel of the Appeals Court
posted by NeilRalston | 56 Comments
Monday, August 20, 2007 11:21 AM

Albany reporter subpoened; SPJ Prez quoted in NY Times

One of our favorite topics on this blog is situations in which reporters are subpoened by courts. Few things get a group of journalists blood boiling more than that. The latest is an ethics panel at the New York Legislature subpoenaing information
posted by DaveAeikens | 1 Comments
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:53 AM

Judge Orders Reporters to Testify in Hatfill Case

A federal judge today ordered five journalists to identify the government officials who anonymously provided information to them about an investigation of Steven Hatfill, the scientist who was identified as "a person of interest" in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
posted by NeilRalston | 0 Comments
Monday, August 13, 2007 12:03 PM

Chronicle reporter faces BALCO prosecutor

SPJ earlier this year signed onto support Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, the two San Francisco Chronicle reporters who reported on grand jury testimony from case involving a San Francisco laboratory called BALCO. The two reporters were threatened
posted by DaveAeikens | 0 Comments
Saturday, August 11, 2007 7:55 PM

Judge rejects AP effort to get names of players accused of steriod use

The issue of steroid use in baseball s one of great public interest. So when some names of ballplayers that Jason Grimsley of the Arizona Diamondbacks named showed up in a search warrant (usually public documents), the AP went after it. A federal
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 3:10 PM

LDF committee joins prison access case

SPJ has joined at the request of the Reporters Committee For The Freedom of the Press a case called Hammer v Ashcroft. David Paul Hammer is a death-row inmate in a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind. who says his First Amendment rights were violated when
posted by DaveAeikens | 1 Comments
Monday, August 06, 2007 12:25 PM

FOI passes Senate

The updated Freedom of Information Act made it out of the Senate Friday with a few minor changes. The Shield law bill made it out of committee.   Here is a press release from the Sunshine in Government Initiative: SGI Applauds Senate Passage of
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 2:57 PM

Shield law action today

The federal Shield law proposal that SPJ supports is in mark up in the House today and a vote in the judiciary coimmittee on Thursday. A few changes have been made since the bill was last heard in June. *The definition of a journalist is narrowed to
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