Government denials of access will not go unchallenged,” said RCFP Colorado Local Legal Initiative Attorney Rachael Johnson.

Under the memorandum, the DOJ could still issue subpoenas or court orders for records when the “member of the news media is the subject or target of an investigation when that status is not based on ...

James V. Grimaldi is a senior writer on the investigations desk of The Wall Street Journal. He is based in the Washington bureau, where he has written about money and politics and global money ...

RCFP had urged the court to rule that it was unconstitutional to require social media platforms to report to the state how they moderate controversial categories of speech.

Background: In September 2015, the estate of Vallia Valene Karaharisis filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Bucks County, Pennsylvania, its private medical contractor PrimeCare Medical, and other ...

Allyson Veile is a media litigation fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Prior to joining the Reporters Committee, Allyson worked for two years as a legal fellow at the ...

Matt Singer is the Reporters Committee’s media law fellow. Matt attended the New York University School of Law, where he was the senior notes editor of the NYU Journal of Intellectual Property & ...

Renee Griffin is a staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, where she primarily oversees the Legal Hotline and facilitates rapid response to legal issues faced by ...

Background: In 2020, the federal government charged property developer Mark Handel with a range of financial crimes. The indictment included allegations that he “solicited large amounts of donations ...

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud. Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. These are among the names listed in a newly unsealed corporate disclosure statement showing the ...

A federal appeals court has ruled unconstitutional a key provision in a California online safety law that would have required news organizations to restrict access to public-interest journalism on ...