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Alliance Applauds Rep. Carolyn Maloney on Protecting Journalists Through Recent Legislation
On July 14, the House voted in favor of an amendment protecting journalists’ operations in Russia. The recent 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) incorporated ... Read More
Alliance Applauds Schiff Amendment Protecting Journalists
On July 13, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) announced an amendment to the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act that includes pivotal protections for journalists ... Read More
Tenth Circuit Finds Constitutional Right to Record Police
On July 11, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held there is a clearly established First Amendment right to record law enforcement officers performing their ... Read More
Alliance Opposes Bill Restricting Journalists’ Right of Access
On July 5, the Alliance joined a letter by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) asking Arizona Governor Douglas Ducey to veto HB 2319—a recently ... Read More
Alliance Supports Robust, Uniform Anti-SLAPP Law
On June 23, the Alliance joined a coalition letter supporting the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (UPEPA)—the Uniform Law Commission’s model anti-SLAPP law ... Read More
Judiciary Moves Forward to Modernize PACER
On March 15, the Judicial Conference of the United States convened. The Committee on Court Administration and Case Management endorsed making searches free for non-commercial ... Read More
Florida Governor Office Considered Changing New York Times v. Sullivan Standard
On May 18, the Orlando Sentinel obtained documents showing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s staff worked on a proposal that would change the New York Times ... Read More
DOJ Secretly Subpoenaed Journalist
On May 14, a FOIA request revealed that the DOJ secretly subpoenaed a Guardian journalist’s phone records as part of a leak investigation, initiated by ... Read More
Appeals Court says New York Anti-SLAPP Not Retroactive
On May 19, a New York appeals court dismissed a defamation claim in Kurland v. Glassdoor. Kurland sued Glassdoor based on an anonymous bad review ... Read More
Russia Introduces Legislation to Shut Down Independent Press
On May 18, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported that the Russian legislature is considering a law that would allow Russian law enforcement to ... Read More
