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MFIA Counters Drugmakers’ Challenge of Medicare Drug Pricing Program in Amicus Brief
The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic has filed an amicus curiae brief in two cases in which drug manufacturers claim that a voluntary program to negotiate Medicare drug prices infringes on their First Amendment rights.
MFIA Wins Access to Records Showing if Maine Jail Recorded Attorney-Client Calls
After a two-year legal fight by the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) a court determined that a county jail’s call log is a public record.
Following MFIA Suit, West Point Athletics Arm Begins Releasing Records
After a lawsuit filed by the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, the entity that runs West Point’s sports programs has begun releasing previously financial and contractual records about the army’s sports program that it previously withheld.
MFIA Sues Allegheny County Jail over Gag Rules
The Media Freedom and Information Access clinic at Yale Law School has sued Allegheny County for preventing employees of a Pittsburgh jail from speaking to the press without permission.
From MIT to NPR: Law Grad Jeff Guo ’20 Finds a Home on the Radio With Planet Money
Journalist and lawyer Jeff Guo ’20 tells Yale Alumni Magazine about his time with the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic and how he came to cohost NPR’s Planet Money.
MFIA Wins Disclosure of Connecticut School Choice Lottery Algorithm
The state of Connecticut must disclose how magnet school placements are made after a win by the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic.
MFIA Welcomes 2023–24 Craig Newmark Fellow Tobin Raju
Tobin Raju will join the Media Freedom and Information Access clinic at Yale Law School as its Craig Newmark fellow for 2023–24.
ISP Launches Third Digital Public Sphere White Paper Collection
Today, the Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School published “Uniformity and Fragmentation in the Digital Public Sphere,” a collection of six essays that explores the increasing uniformity of the global digital public sphere.
DocProject Provides Legal Support for Film on Human Cost of Insulin Crisis
Students in DocProject provided legal review for Pay or Die, a new documentary about America’s insulin affordability crisis.