The recordings helped dispel rumors about the police response to a mass shooting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, last year.

This March 19, 1975, file photo shows the Hughes Glomar Explorer, a 618-foot-long salvage ship built by the eccentric industrialist Howard Hughes, at the Long Beach harbor dock in Los Angeles, Calif.

District of Columbia Although the Open Meetings Act does not specifically address meetings conducted by text message, it applies to meetings held by any "means of communication." D.C. Code Ann. § ...

Recent legislation has trended toward more robust protections for defendants in SLAPP suits. Missouri became the seventeenth state to enact a version of the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act ...

Changing the terms of foreign journalists' visas might appear subtle, but it can have profound implications for press freedom ...

Several New York Times journalists received subpoenas seeking their testimony before a grand jury.

One question that has troubled members of the legal community for decades is how the law should treat one who… One question that has troubled members of the legal community for decades is how the law ...

Today, the U.S. Department of Justice released the findings from its Inspector General investigation into the use of subpoenas and other legal authorities in leak investigations to obtain ...

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press monitors subpoenas and other legal threats targeting journalists, and helps those facing government attempts to force them to testify about or disclose ...

Charlottesville, Va. – The Board of Trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression has decided to donate the Center’s assets of over $1 million to relaunch the First ...