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Virginia bill opens inactive criminal investigative files to public

March 3, 2021

Kentucky bill raises alarms for letting the 'fox guard the henhouse'

March 3, 2021

Georgia coalition joins parent's fight to access school's COVID-19 data

February 25, 2021

NFOIC signs letter to President Biden: Bring back transparency

February 22, 2021

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The First Challenge To FOSTA Was Dismissed — Along With The First Amendment’s Unique Standing Doctrine

December 27, 2018

By Anna Windemuth '20

A few months ago, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the government on First and Fifth Amendment grounds for enacting the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act.

Are Unpublished Opinions Inconsistent with the Right of Access?

November 19, 2018

By Katrin Marquez

By the end of their first week in law school, law students have all learned at least one thing: the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (“FRCP”) are very important.

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Twenty-First Century First Amendment: Public Forums in the Digital Age

October 29, 2018

By Isabel Farhi '19

In 2017, the Supreme Court recognized in Packingham v. North Carolina that “[w]hile in the past there may have been difficulty in identifying the most important places (in a spatial sense) for the exchange of views, today the answer is clear. It is cyberspace . . . and social media in particular.”

Charging Bull and Fearless Girl: Conflict between Artists’ Rights and First Amendment Freedoms

June 18, 2018

By Shannon Price '20

When Kristen Visbel’s “Fearless Girl” was installed at Bowling Green in Manhattan’s Financial District in March of 2017, the statue was hailed by many as an iconic representation of female empowerment. Placed in the path of Wall Street’s famous “Charging Bull,” “Fearless Girl” stares down the massive animal with shoulders back and pigtails flying.