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  • Latest News

    FAC News

    FAC Welcomes Juniper Licinio as Legal Fellow

    […] received her undergraduate degree in Broadcast and Digital Journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Previously, Juniper worked as a Staff Attorney for Inland Counties Legal Service’s Systemic Impact Litigation Team, where she focused on landlord-tenant law and the rights of LGBTQIA+ students in public schools. She also served […]

    August 21, 2025

  • Cases

    Court Access

    U.S. v. Center for Investigative Reporting

    FAC filed an amicus brief with the Ninth Circuit in support of The Center for Investigative Reporting ("CIR"), which is seeking to unseal federal wiretap applications and orders. This case arises from a 1990s FBI investigation into the possible theft of approximately $180 million worth of precious gems and metals belonging to the Russian […]

    June 15, 2025

  • Cases

    First Amendment

    Gopher Media LLC v. Melone

    FAC filed an amicus brief to defend longstanding Ninth Circuit precedent that someone whose anti-SLAPP motion is denied in federal court can file an immediate appeal to seek early dismissal of claims that unlawfully chill freedom of speech. CLOSED

    March 31, 2025

  • Cases

    Public Records

    MSW Media, Inc. and First Amendment Coalition v. United States DOGE Service

    […] FOIA request seeking all electronic communications between Musk and DOGE staff since January 20. DOGE never responded to the request, thereby failing to comply with federal law requirements. The lawsuit asks the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to order DOGE to respond to FAC’s request and disclose the requested records. […]

    March 28, 2025

  • Latest News

    Blog

    Following Pressure from FAC, California Judicial Council Releases Records

    […] administrative arm of California’s court system. Among other duties, it educates judges on developments in the law. The Judicial Council produced some records to Abel, including an agenda listing a session on the Racial Justice Act at a seminar for appellate justices, but it refused to disclose the powerpoint slides for that session, arguing […]

    February 28, 2025

  • Latest News

    Press Release

    Community Group and Huntington Beach Residents Sue City Over Library Censorship

    […] of Southern California, the First Amendment Coalition, Community Legal Aid SoCal, and Jenner & Block LLP, the lawsuit seeks to compel Huntington Beach to comply with the requirements of the 2024 California Freedom to Read Act and the California Constitution and to prohibit the city from implementing and enforcing its censorship scheme. "Public libraries […]

    February 27, 2025

  • Cases

    Newsgathering

    Thompson v. Spitzer

    This amicus letter argues law professor Andrea Roth is protected by the reporter shield law and First Amendment against a subpoena issued by the Orange County District Attorney's office for sources she spoke to for a 2019 law review article about a controversial DNA collection program. CLOSED

    January 7, 2025