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FAC Obtains Clemency Records in 6 California Cases After Challenging Secret Docket

[…] recommendation to pardon or commute the sentences of: Ramon Rodriguez Susan H. Burton Richard Flowers James Harris Elaine Wong Anthony Guzman FAC is represented in this matter by Thomas R. Burke, Rochelle Wilcox and Selina MacLaren of the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine. For more information, contact: David Snyder Executive Director First Amendment Coalition […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
December 23, 2019
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FAC Names Leading California Media Figures to Board of Directors

[…] reporter, Washington correspondent, deputy Op-Ed editor and international news editor. Chan began his career in July 2000 as a reporter at the Washington Post, reporting on local government, education and social services. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal and the Philadelphia Inquirer. A native New Yorker, Chan grew up in an […]

November 12, 2020
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FAC Moves—Again—To Unseal Records From CA Supreme Court “Secret Docket”

[…] courts are generally presumed to be available to the public. In order to seal such documents from public view, courts are required to determine, on a case- by-case basis, whether the high legal standard for sealing has been met. Governor Newsom asked the state Supreme Court on April 23 to review whether Burton should […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 11, 2019
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FAC Forces Disclosure of More Documents From CA Supreme Court ‘Secret Docket’

Even more secret records related to former California Gov. Jerry Brown’s request to pardon former state Sen. Rod Wright became public yesterday—the result of an ongoing effort by the First Amendment Coalition (FAC) to shine light on the decades-old California Supreme Court practice of automatically sealing documents related to executive clemency. The once-sealedrecordsreleased yesterday […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 21, 2019
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FAC & Reporters Committee file briefs in Apple v. Samsung secrecy appeal

[…] the Apple v. Samsung patent infringement litigation. FAC is participating to defend the trial judge's ruling directing the unsealing of certain confidential financial records filed under seal by both Apple and Samsung. Also filed Monday: a media amicus brief prepared by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and submitted on behalf of […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 17, 2012
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David Snyder, Journalist and First Amendment Lawyer, Named to Head FAC

[…] levels of both professions, has been selected as the new Executive Director of the First Amendment Coalition. He takes over leadership of the free speech and open- government organization on January 1. Snyder is an attorney in the San Francisco office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, a global law firm. His practice includes […]

November 18, 2016
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Court says NO to request by FAC and others for State Bar records needed for research on affirmative action

[…] to be nonpublic. One oddity of the Court's reasoning is the unique status conferred on the State Bar. Under the Court's interpretation, the Bar is the only government entity or agency in California that is not subject to freedom-of-information principles. Another oddity of the Court's decision is that it construes Prop 59, enacted in […]

April 8, 2010
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CFAC joins appeal to permit webcasting of file-sharing case in federal court

CFAC has joined a legal brief urging the federal Court of Appeals in Boston to allow the webcasting of court hearings in a music file-sharing lawsuit filed by the recording industry. Although TV cameras are permitted in California state trial courts on a case-by-case basis, few federal courts have allowed cameras since an experiment […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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CFAC files brief to lift gag in BART homicide case

[…] who is charged with murder for the shooting death--captured on numerous cellphone videos uploaded to Youtube--of Oscar Grant III on New Year's Day. The Coalition's brief, written by Keker & Van Nest lawyers Paven Malhotra and Cody Harris, argues that the judge's gag order "denies the press a key source of information on a […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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Candidates disclose tax returns because media demand them. Why not use same strategy for campaign contributions?

BY PETER SCHEER--Everybody has a theory about why presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, in the face of mounting criticism even within his own party, refuses to make public more of his tax returns. My two cents: His returns for the years 2000-2005, before Romney had settled on a decision to seek the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 25, 2012