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Thanks to AG’s threats to indict press in leak cases, reporters need not rely on 1st Amendment to protect sources. They can take the Fifth.

[…] one is implicitly admitting guilt. In fact, the Fifth amendment does not so much imply guilt as it does a refusal to be of assistance to the government in meeting its burden of proving guilt. Why offer to help a prosecutor who wants to put you in jail? But even if the implication of […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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Supreme Court to hold oral argument in FAC case this Wednesday at Boalt Hall. Be there!

[…] Bar is subject to a legal right of public access to its records. The Bar, as a judicial branch entity, is exempt from the California Public Records Act. That much is undisputed. This case addresses whether records of the Bar are nonetheless "public records" under alternative legal theories. One theory is a "common law" […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 7, 2013
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San Francisco City Attorney Releases Reams of Records in Response to FAC CPRA Request

In response to multiple California Public Records Act requests from the First Amendment Coalition, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera produced hundreds of pages of emails between Herrera campaign supporters and Herrera's staff or Herrera himself. The City Attorney initially asserted that the records were not subject to disclosure under the CPRA. FAC respectfully […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
November 8, 2017
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Revisiting Citizens United decision: Not as harmful as feared, and actually provides a 1st Amendment rationale for curbing super PACs

[…] purchase of TV and radio ads or otherwise) by combining one's contribution with those of others is outside the zone of First Amendment protection and subject to government limits. Gorge Soros, on his own, is therefore free to spend millions to benefit President Barak Obama. So is Warren Buffett. However, Soros and Buffett may […]

June 1, 2012
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[…] October 11, 2006, I received an e-mail message from an organization calling itself the California First Amendment Coalition. The message header was "Flash: First Amendment and Open Government News," surely something I'd be interested in reading. The body of the message was a re-print of the current lead article, Vol. 16, no. 16, on […]

June 2, 2009
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One judge’s brilliant (and hilarious) rejoinder to lawyers trying to cut off public access to court documents

[…] the conviction, bordering on fetishism, among lawyers representing corporations that every bit and byte of information about their client, no matter how obvious, widely known, or inconsequential, must be sealed because it is so sensitive that disclosure will imperil the firm's very existence. Good judges, like Breyer, apply a healthy dose of skepticism to […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 25, 2015
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Nonprofits to downsizing law firms: Loan us your laid off junior lawyers; we'll return them when the economy recovers

[…] example, consider the California First Amendment Coalition, the organization I am associated with. We need a staff litigator to initiate and handle important free speech and access-to- government cases across the state. To hire a lawyer would require our securing a foundation grant for that purpose--no small feat in the current economy and, in […]

June 3, 2009
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Ninth Circuit Refuses to Rehear Honking-As-Speech Case

[…] 2018, the federal lawsuit asserts a First Amendment right to freedom of expression through horn use. In February 2021, the district court ruled in favor of the government, finding Section 27001 is a permissible, content-neutral regulation. On appeal before a panel of the Ninth Circuit, Porter’s attorneys argued that the statute is a content-based […]
- Free Expression
May 23, 2023
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MediaNews, Hearst and Clint Reilly should not be allowed to keep their secret settlement a secret

[…] in one case but not the other. And don’t count on the Justice Department for scrutiny of the parties’ secret deal. In two recent phone conversations, the government antitrust lawyer handling this matter told me he was unable to determine whether the agency had even received the settlement. Do I really suspect wrongdoing by […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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Media Coalition Asks Court to Unseal Search Warrant Targeting Protesters Kept Under Seal for Two Years

[…] Years FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Updated: The court on Nov. 10 granted the motion to unseal but delayed release of the records pending further proceedings. LOS ANGELES —California government watchdog group First Amendment Coalition and independent news organization Knock LA this week are asking a court to unseal a two-year-old search warrant obtained by the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 19, 2022