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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.

MFIA Clinic Establishes New Ruttenberg Fellowship
Francesca Lina Procaccini has joined the Media and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) at Yale Law School as the new Ruttenberg Fellow.

MFIA Clinic Seeks Records in Pentagon Papers Case
Acting on behalf of Harvard historian and author Jill Lepore, the Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School has petitioned the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts to unseal the records of two 1971 Boston grand juries convened to investigate the leak and publication of the Pentagon Papers.

MFIA Clinic Files Lawsuit Against CIA
Acting for two investigative journalists, the Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic has sued the Central Intelligence Agency for silencing the top FBI interrogator of Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah. The lawsuit alleges a CIA effort to mislead the American public about the effectiveness of torture.