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MFIA and CRIT Fight for Transparency to Protect Public Health and Safety
On March 25, 2019, the Yale Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency (CRIT) and leading nonprofit consumer advocacy groups Public Citizen and the Center for Science in the Public Interest filed a joint amicus brief at the Supreme Court with the assistance of students and supervising attorneys in Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA).
GHJP Joins PrEP4All in Calling on CDC To Use Its Patents for PrEP
The Yale Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP) joined the PrEP4All Collaboration (PrEP4All) in calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to use its patents on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to promote universal access to PrEP within the United States.
Federal Court Rules that Alabama Must Release Records of Execution Procedures
The Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Clinic won an appeals court victory forcing the state of Alabama to disclose their lethal injection protocol.
MFIA Files Amicus Brief in SCOTUS Gerrymandering Case
The Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Clinic recently filed an amicus brief opposing partisan gerrymandering on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment.
MFIA Clinic Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of 17 Major Media Organizations
The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) at Yale Law School filed an amicus brief in the case Anonymous v. Anonymous on behalf of a coalition of 17 major media organizations.
MFIA Boot Camp Trains Lawyers and Journalists on the Freedom of Information Act
The annual Freedom of Information Act boot camp was held by the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) in February.
MFIA/CRIT Team Supports Johns Hopkins Investigation of FDA Oversight of Fentanyl Products
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health collaborated with attorneys and law students from published Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) and Yale’s Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency (CRIT), culminating in a new report about fentanyl in JAMA.
MFIA Clinic Files Lawsuit Against Coast Guard and DHS to Challenge Secret Arrests
Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic filed a lawsuit against the Coast Guard and Department of Homeland Security to establish the public’s First Amendment right of access to basic information about people arrested and detained by the government.