NEXT
Sign in to follow

National Law Journal

When Government's Need for Secrecy Clashes With the Public's Right to Know

A panel sponsored by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security explored those lines in a webcast Tuesday. "Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The Legal Rules" included lawyers and journalists who have been caught up in national security issues.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

When Government's Need for Secrecy Clashes With the Public's Right to Know

A panel sponsored by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security explored those lines in a webcast Tuesday. "Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The Legal Rules" included lawyers and journalists who have been caught up in national security issues.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court Declines NYC's Bid to Withhold Occupy Reports

A federal judge has refused to set aside an order requiring New York City to turn over online police booking data and other information sought by plaintiffs suing over the arrest of Occupy Wall Street protestors in lower Manhattan in March 2012.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Foster v. Pennsylvania Dept. of Corr., PICS Case No. 17-0579 (Pa. Commw. April 7, 2017) Wojcik, J. (7 pages).

By | April 21, 2017
Inmate could not use appeal of corrections department's denial of inmate's RTKL request, based on its determination that it did not possess inmate's sentencing order, as a collateral attack on his incarceration. Final determination of the Office of Open Records affirmed.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Justices Hear Arguments Over Northside Hospital Deal Records

A public records fight between one of Atlanta's largest hospitals and a Jones Day partner spilled into the Supreme Court of Georgia Monday as Jones Day battled to reverse lower court rulings that have, so far, shielded hospital business transaction records from public scrutiny.
31 minute read

New York Law Journal

NYC Wins Round in Case Over Privacy of Municipal ID Data

In a ruling that gives New York City a victory in its effort to protect undocumented immigrants, a Staten Island judge found that destruction of records submitted for the city's municipal ID program does not violate New York's Freedom of Information Law.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

NYC Wins Round in Case Over Privacy of Municipal ID Data

In a ruling that gives New York City a victory in its effort to protect undocumented immigrants, a Staten Island judge found that destruction of records submitted for the city's municipal ID program does not violate New York's Freedom of Information Law.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Appeals Court Flips Decision on Files in Eric Garner Case

The city's Civilian Complaint Review Board is not required to release prior complaints against the NYPD officer who placed Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold, a Manhattan appeals court ruled.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Free Online Access to Georgia's Legal Code Violates Copyright, Judge Says

One day after a federal judge in Atlanta ruled that the state of Georgia may copyright its official legal code and pursue infringers, a California public records activist who had made Georgia's code available for free to the general public began work on an appeal.
12 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court Finds Consultants' Emails Are Public Records

A state judge said cloaking the informal relationship between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Jonathan Rosen, co-founder and principal of BerlinRosen, with the deliberative privilege exemption "impermissibly" broadens the exemption and runs counter to the public interest.
8 minute read

TRENDING STORIES

Law Pro Logo

Featured Firms

Law Offices of Gary Martin Hays & Associates, P.C.

(470) 294-1674

Law Offices of Mark E. Salomone

(857) 444-6468

Smith & Hassler

(713) 739-1250

More from ALM

More from ALM

Legal Speak is a weekly podcast that makes sense of what’s happening in the legal industry.

Resources

  • 5 Proven Steps to Accelerate Business Growth in a Crowded Legal Market

    Brought to you by AllRize

    Download Now

  • 2024 Report: Digital Payments in Class Actions and Mass Torts + a Special Look at Industry Fraud

    Brought to you by Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC.

    Download Now

  • Law Firm Office Space Perspective: Major U.S. Markets

    Brought to you by JLL

    Download Now

  • Expanding Your Practice Areas: How to Expand Offerings that Attract and Retain Clients

    Brought to you by Filevine

    Download Now