Updated: Two executives who founded an alternative weekly newspaper were arrested last night for publishing a story in The Phoenix New Times that revealed grand jury secrets.
First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams has a role as a judge who sends a journalist to jail for refusing to reveal her sources in an upcoming film called Nothing But…
A judge who won a $2.1 million libel verdict against the Boston Herald choked up as he defended himself on ethics charges that he used court stationery to demand even…
The consumer group Public Citizen is seeking to unseal a settlement in a suit by the family of a 10-year-old girl who was paralyzed in a crash with a drunken…
Criticized by a parishioner in private telephone messages, a Catholic priest in suburban Chicago might have been best-advised to turn the other cheek. Instead, he fired back from the pulpit,…
A high school football coach contends in a federal appeal that he has a constitutional right to support his players during their prayers by bowing his head and kneeling.
The showdown between an anti-porn crusading lawyer and the Florida Bar is headed for a hearing tomorrow when a federal judge considers the bar’s motion to dismiss the suit.
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Georgia gun shop claiming it was defamed by statements made in a press conference announcing a lawsuit.
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