firstamendment

Click here to view Program We should have known. A First Amendment conference featuring Arianna Huffington and Daniel Ellsberg–both appearing in the past week on “The Colbert Report” — would prove very popular. Especially since CFAC’s 9/29 & 9/30 conference at UC Berkeley also includes Judith Miller, Gabriel Schoenfeld, Dan Weintraub, Dan Gillmor, Phil Bronstein and former NSA general counsel Robert Deitz . . . among others. “IN CONTEMPT,” CFAC’s 2006 Free Speech and Open

2 Reporters Get Up to 18 months for Refusing to Reveal Sources in Bonds Steroids Case By Stuart Silverstein Los Angeles Times—Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters were sentenced Thursday to up to 18 months in jail for refusing to reveal who gave them secret testimony on the use of steroids by baseball’s Barry Bonds and other star athletes. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White in San Francisco was immediately stayed, pending an

Bail revoked for journalist in contempt case By Demian Bulwa San Francisco Chronicle–Freelance journalist and activist Josh Wolf is heading back to jail after a federal appeals court on Monday ordered his bail revoked unless he changes course and gives a federal grand jury outtakes of footage he shot at a violent San Francisco protest in July 2005. Wolf, who has argued that he has a right as a journalist to withhold unpublished material, plans

Ninth Circuit Rules That Freelance Journalist Josh Wolf Must Comply With Federal Subpoena By Stephen Kaus Huffingtonpost.com–In an unpublished ruling issued Thursday, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal ruled against freelance video journalist Josh Wolf and stated that he must comply with a grand jury subpoena for his unpublished footage. Winning in the Ninth Circuit is very much the luck of the draw these days. Although Wolf drew a favorable three judge

Freelancer Wolf released from jail pending emergency appeal of contempt By Bob Egelko San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 2–Freelance journalist Josh Wolf was released on bail Friday from a federal prison where he had been held since Aug. 1 after challenging a grand jury subpoena that demanded outtakes of videos he shot at a San Francisco protest. Wolf’s advocates, who included national journalist organizations, saw the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals order as a sign