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 ...

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 ...

Update: During a hearing on Nov. 23, the trial court declined to lift the prior restraint against the New York Times while the court continued to deliberate. A month later, the trial court ordered the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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Privacy campaigners are urging Parliament to address a clause in the government’s upcoming Online Safety Bill that would force tech companies to screen people’s ...

A judge in Washington state recently failed in his attempt to obtain a court order that would have proactively restrained a citizen from posting “defamatory” or “harassing” speech about the judge. The ...

The decision by a Westchester judge barring The New York Times from publishing information about a notorious right-wing organization, Project Veritas, and ordering The Times to destroy information it ...

From Judge Amos Mazzant's decision Monday in Phillips v. Collin Community College Dist. (E.D. Tex.) (see also Keith Whittington's post on the underlying controversy, and my post from when the lawsuit ...