The Ninth Circuit sided with the Courthouse News Service that a court policy violated their First Amendment right to immediate access to non-confidential civil complaints. Ventura County’s policy of delaying access prompted the lawsuit. The delay for administrative reasons was two days, but the county changed to scanning which most often made the complaints available on the same day. The court ruled against the two-day delay but held that the delay with the scanning was reasonable. (Constitutional Law Prof Blog, January 20, 2020, by Steven D. Schwinn)
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