Update: During a hearing on Nov. 23, the trial court declined to lift the prior restraint against the New York Times while the court continues to deliberate. “It is deeply troubling that this court is ...

Virginia law bars attorneys from sending court records to journalists. The commonwealth’s court records are controlled by a central administrator in Richmond and serve as a source of income for ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Prior restraints—or government orders not to publish information—have long been considered a quintessential First Amendment ...

The city of Los Angeles is suing a journalist and an activist organization, saying they have endangered undercover officers by publishing their photographs. (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times) In a ...

In a concerning ruling this month, a California Superior Court judge allowed the city of Los Angeles to move forward with a lawsuit seeking to claw back police personnel records that the city itself ...

When journalists at The Oregonian started reporting on a sexual harassment lawsuit against Nike, they knew that sealed documents in the case could provide vital information. Little did they know that ...

A Mississippi state judge ordered a newspaper to remove an editorial criticizing city officials from its website, a move that First Amendment experts say is unconstitutional prior restraint.

Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen has a Google Comment up on the whole Wikileaks fiasco. Now that Julius Baer has moved for dismissal, We are confident that judges in such future cases will have ...

A couple of weeks ago, a judge ordered The Gazette not to publish information it had lawfully received from a public court file. Reporter Julia Cardi had asked a court clerk to provide her all ...