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News stories recently posted throughout the First Amendment Center Online.
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Muhammad cartoonist receives German prize
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Chancellor Angela Merkel praises Kurt Westergaard's bravery, stresses importance of media freedom during ceremony honoring Danish illustrator's achievements for free speech.
09.09.10
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ACLU challenges searches of laptops at borders
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'Americans do not surrender their privacy and free-speech rights when they travel abroad,' attorney says.
09.08.10
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Feds have mixed record on openness, report says
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Government has significantly reduced its FOIA backlog but also slowed its pace of opening previously confidential material to public view, public-interest coalition finds.
09.07.10
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Newspaper gets records detailing remote Idaho shootout
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Incident had been shrouded in secrecy until Post Register won nine-month court battle to unseal Idaho State Police documents.
09.06.10
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Dems accuse Fox News of bolstering Ohio candidate
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Democratic Governors Association claims free publicity during 'O'Reilly Factor' amounted to improper in-kind contribution to Republican gubernatorial candidate's campaign.
09.03.10
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Losing candidate files libel suit against 2 Fla. newspapers
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Jeff Greene claims St. Petersburg Times, Miami Herald published knowingly false articles timed to damage his chances of winning U.S. Senate seat.
09.02.10
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Texas official faces felony charges after releasing jail record
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Nueces County sheriff says executive director of jail standards agency violated sheriff's department policy by disclosing info on inmate who committed suicide.
08.30.10
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Federal contractor charged with leaking secrets to reporter
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Steven Kim pleads not guilty; on same day, director of national intelligence sends memo to agencies saying officials should be 'seen but not heard.'
08.30.10
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N.J. freeholder advises officials how to skirt open-records laws
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'Keep these documents solely in your personal possession,' Peter Palmer says in letter to 22 trustees of taxpayer-financed New Jersey Association of Counties.
08.30.10
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Schools urged to disclose more data on student achievement
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U.S. Education Secretary says too much information that would help teachers and parents is being kept out of public view.
08.28.10
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Judge to EPA: Stop destroying records Union Pacific wants
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Federal judge also appoints records expert to make sure environmental agency complies with order.
08.27.10
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Sotomayor: Free speech vs. security likely to come before Court
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Justice tells University of Denver audience that she can't answer student's question about WikiLeaks because issue is 'very likely to come before me.'
08.27.10
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NFL cheerleader wins $11 million libel suit
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Sarah Jones, who is also a high school teacher in Kentucky, filed suit after gossip website posted photo, accusation.
08.26.10
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Calif. university ordered to release Palin records, group says
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Californians Aware, which sued CSU Stanislaus, says judge ruled school violated state public-records law by refusing to disclose contract, other files related to Sarah Palin appearance.
08.26.10
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Ohio activist challenges Tenn. open-records law
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Richard Jones wants federal court to void section of statute declaring records to be open only to citizens of Tennessee.
08.25.10
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Campus newspapers ask high court to overturn alcohol-ad ban
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ACLU says Virginia alcohol-control board's rule isn't constitutional because there is no proof it diminishes underage or binge drinking on campus.
08.25.10
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Railroad worries EPA will keep destroying records
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Environmental agency agrees to preserve requested records concerning lead-contaminated sites in Nebraska; Union Pacific, doubtful, says it needs the info to show it's not at fault.
08.25.10
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Calif. televangelist can sue ABC for defamation, 9th Circuit says
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Three-judge panel orders lower court to reconsider case and determine if Rev. Frederick Price's reputation was harmed by '20/20' segment that presented clip of sermon out of context.
08.25.10
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ACLU claims Ill. eavesdropping law violates free speech
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Group says it, other citizens should be able to record encounters with police secretly.
08.23.10
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Pa. high court OKs unsealing files in investigation of state senator
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Newspaper had been denied access to some grand jury records involving Sen. Jane Orie and her sister, who are awaiting trial on charges they used paid legislative staff to do campaign work.
08.22.10
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Calif. appeals court overturns judge's photo ban
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Three-judge panel rules order barring L.A. Times from publishing pictures of murder defendant was unconstitutional prior restraint.
08.20.10
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N.M. court: Complaints against police must be released
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Appellate ruling reinforces state's sunshine law granting access to public records.
08.20.10
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Immigration judge blasts leak in Obama's aunt's asylum case
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Zeituni Onyango deserves to stay in U.S., judge rules, because leak of her status to news organization put her at risk in Kenya.
08.18.10
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Pa. court bars release of county official's e-mails
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At issue in case is whether messages should be disclosed because they're kept in county court's computer system, or withheld because they're records of judicial agency not covered by state's sunshine law.
08.17.10
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WikiLeaks prepares to publish more Afghan war files
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Pentagon says release of 15,000 additional classified documents would be more damaging to security, risk more lives than organization's initial release.
08.13.10
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Victims of Fla. Ponzi scheme won't be identified
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Federal judge rules court document to remain sealed in former Fort Lauderdale lawyer's criminal case.
08.12.10
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Nev. court throws out teacher's suit against school paper
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Judge says there was nothing known to be untrue in article high school music instructor claims damaged her reputation.
08.12.10
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Minn. appeals court rejects access to absentee votes
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Judges rule against KSTP-TV in case involving uncounted ballots in tight 2008 Senate race between Al Franken, Norm Coleman.
08.11.10
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President signs 'libel-tourism' bill
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New law will protect American authors, journalists and publishers from foreign defamation judgments that undermine free speech.
08.11.10
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