A reporter banned from his embedded assignment in Afghanistan in 2010 lost a round in federal district court. The military claimed his ejection was justified since his video of wounded soldiers on the Washington Times website violated guidelines by showing identifiable faces of wounded personnel. (McClatchyDC, December 6, 2013, by Michael Doyle)
The freelance reporter Wayne Anderson claimed he had a right to his embedded assignment by virtue of his First Amendment rights to free speech and press, but the judge ruled there is no such right under the Constitution. (Courthouse News Service, December 9, 2013, by Lorraine Bailey)