The Maryland General Assembly overwhelmingly voted in support of SB459, a measure to require units of the Maryland state government to allocate at least 50 percent of their advertising spending directly to Maryland news organizations.
This case involves allegations of federal law enforcement officers indiscriminately using chemical agents to control crowds of protesters and hitting journalists with tear gas and pepper spray as they reported on active protests.
We urged the PRC to repeal the non-compensatory class authority 2 percent underwater surcharge.
The proposed adjustments, approved by the governors of the Postal Service, would raise Periodicals rates by an average of 6.8 percent and Marketing Mail (MM) prices by an average of 4.8 percent.
On April 7, the News/Media Alliance (“NMA”) led an amicus brief in the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Second Appellate District, Division Three in support of petitioner in Variety Media, LLC v. The Superior Court of Los Angeles County.
The NPRM proposes substantial increases in certain fees, including raising the fee for news website group registrations from $95 to $350.
The FTC published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on March 13 seeking public comment on the Negative Option Rule.
The brief highlights the importance of the press’s editorial autonomy and ability of journalists to decide when information is in the public interest and argues that the West Virginia’s Daniel’s Law at issue would suppress truthful facts on matters of public concern, create traps, could chill news reporting, and cannot survive constitutional scrutiny.
The CIT also ordered that any entries that liquidated within the last 90 days should be reliquidated voluntarily by CBP without IEEPA duties.
The report’s publication sets the stage for Greer to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee in the coming months.
