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MFIA’s Stand Against “Secret Law” Unseals Court Opinion
The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) at Yale Law School prevailed against “secret law" by convincing an appeals court to unseal portions of an opinion issued last year in a case that involves national security and has implications for Fifth Amendment rights.
MFIA Argues Against Iowa Law that Criminalizes Undercover Reporting
The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit urging that an Iowa law criminalizing the use of deception to gain access to agricultural facilities violates the First Amendment.
MFIA Seeks to Keep Law Enforcement Disciplinary Hearings in Public Record
The New York Times and Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access (MFIA) Clinic filed a brief last month in a case concerning public access to police disciplinary records.
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.