Access to courts and court records
This is a decision issued by a judge to keep media attention from a case.
What is a gag order?
Who is John Milton?
This school district was sued by the Tinkers and one other student for infringement of their First Amendment rights.
What is Des Moines?
This person sued his former wife for defamation over an article she wrote about domestic violence.
Who is Johnny Depp?
A law that protects patients' privacy.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
What is federal rule of criminal procedure 53?
This Founding Father wrote that if he had to choose between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
A case in which the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania agreed with the students that their expression was not lewd or vulgar and the bracelets they wore protected speech.
What is the I (heart) boobies case?
What is libel?
A principle that allows individuals to request the removal of outdated, irrelevant, or excessive personal information about them from online platforms and search results.
What is the right to be forgotten?
To _____ means to edit or censor or obscure part of a text for legal or security purposes.
What is to redact?
A 1215 English royal charter that established the principle that the sovereign is subject to the rule of law, guaranteeing English liberties for "free men" and providing a foundation for Anglo-American jurisprudence.
What is the magna carta?
Case in which the Supreme Court reversed the appellate court’s decision because the Court found that the high school principal’s actions were reasonable.
What is the Hazelwood decision?
A published statement that is made with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.
What is actual malice?
When an advertising agency or company uses the image of a well-known person without permission.
What is misappropriation?
A legal right to not divulge confidential information, such as the identify of a confidential source.
What is reporter's privilege?
A landmark case in which the Supreme Court reversed a libel damages judgment against a prominent East Coast daily publication.
When a journalist stakes out a person and may violate that person's expectation of safety and security in their own home, car, place of business, etc.
What is intrusion upon seclusion?
A case in which the court decided decisions about news content are the domain of editors and not judges.
What is Nebraksa Press Association v. Stuart?
The court ruled in this case that a prominent attorney was not a public figure.
What is Gertz v. Welch (1974)?