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Kohler-Hausmann and MFIA Clinic Win Appeal
Professor Issa Kohler-Hausmann ’08, with amicus support from the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, successfully appealed a New York State court ruling prohibiting a record requestor from suing an agency for unreasonable delay when filing a Freedom of Information Request in the state.
New Data Shows Jump in Relief to Veterans with PTSD
The Vets Clinic held a press conference about a report based on newly disclosed records revealing an increase in the approvals of discharge upgrade applications from veterans with PTSD.
Clinic Study Finds Evidence of Genocide in Myanmar
In a legal analysis of the human rights situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School has found strong evidence of genocide against the Rohingya population.
Veterans Clinic to Receive Award from CVLC
The Veterans Legal Services Clinic of Yale Law School will receive the Veterans Justice Award from the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center.
MFIA Clinic Continues to Push for Transparency in TPP Case
A federal district court released an important decision on Tuesday in Intellectual Property Watch’s long-running Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
Veterans Clinic to Receive Organization Award
The Veterans Legal Services Clinic of Yale Law School will receive the 2015 Organization Award from the Hispanic-American Veterans of Connecticut. The award will be presented at the group’s eighth annual military ball on November 21, 2015, in North Haven, Connecticut. The Veterans Legal Services Clinic, established in 2010, represents Connecticut veterans in litigation before administrative agencies and courts, on benefits, discharge upgrade, immigration, and civil rights cases. In addition, clinic students represent local and national organizations in non-litigation matters relating to the...
Gag Order Lifted on Nicholas Merrill Through MFIA Clinic Case Win
A federal district court has ordered the FBI to lift an eleven-year-old gag order imposed on Nicholas Merrill forbidding him from speaking about a National Security Letter (“NSL”) that the FBI served on him in 2004. The ruling marks the first time that an NSL gag order has been lifted in full since the PATRIOT Act vastly expanded the scope of the FBI’s NSL authority in 2001. Mr. Merrill, the executive director of the Calyx Institute, is represented by law students and supervising attorneys of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, a program of Yale Law School’s Abrams Institute for...
Transparency, Surveillance, and the Future of First Amendment Law
In a post-Snowden era, while legal scholars and advocates re-examine government transparency and secrecy, the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School is working to protect the First Amendment rights of citizens and news media across the country.
YLS Clinical Students Represent Immigrants Detained in Texas
Clinical students have continued to represent women and children who are seeking asylum while incarcerated in the nation’s largest immigration detention facility.
MFIA Clinic Files Suit Seeking Access to Hepatitis C Drug Data
Treatment Action Group and the Global Health Justice Partnership have filed a federal lawsuit for access to the information that Gilead Sciences submitted to the FDA on two new—and extremely expensive—hepatitis C drugs, Sovaldi and Harvoni.