Is It Legal to Publish Personal Information Found in Court Documents?
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This is a question about publishing information found in documents from the Family Division of Superior Court regarding a divorce.…
We operate a news publication.We have obtained discovery and depositions from the 1990s for a California civil case. There were…
lacourt.org, the website for the LA County Superior Court, charges a fee of $4.75 to conduct a name…
We have a question about properly citing Court documents in one of our articles. We ran a story based on…
We have depositions from a 1994 California case with selected content we would like to use for a report. I…
I am struggling to get the court records from my divorce proceeding. What should I do?
I am trying to get the court disposition from a case in 1993 in Sacramento and a 2000 case in…
Does a court, judge and/or legal research attorney need to comply with a CPRA request? How can citizens format a CPRA…
I’m a documentary producer researching a 1989 criminal case of Daniel Rakowitz. I requested the case files and court transcript for…
I am trying to get a copy of a public police report from 1999. I phoned the County Sheriff’s Records…