On Friday night, a federal court in Virginia unsealed a redacted version of the search warrant affidavit that provides the FBI’s sworn statement justifying its request to search the home of Washington ...

To our knowledge, it's unprecedented for the Justice Department to deploy the federal laws it has previously cited in this case against journalistic activity.” ...

The legislation would allow courts to quickly weed out meritless lawsuits intended to chill speech about matters of public interest.

Represented by an RCFP attorney, Oklahoma Watch sued the state last year for records related to the resignation of a senior education official.

RCFP attorneys co-represented The Intercept and The Center for Investigative Reporting in a successful effort to make the records public.

Background: In July 2025, Oklahoma Voice reporter Barbara Hoberock filed an open records request seeking the Oklahoma ...

A Pennsylvania judge has ordered state police to release body-worn camera footage capturing a car chase that ended in a fatal ...

These sweeping seizures of a journalist’s records violate the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and the Privacy Protection Act.

A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to provide journalists expanded access to execution proceedings, finding that its restrictions on news media witnesses likely violated state law and the First ...

A New York City family had no basis to sue a photographer who surreptitiously captured images of his neighbors from his own apartment window and later displayed and sold the same images at a public ...

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Update: On Oct. 30, 2025, Indiana University reversed its decision to cut future print editions and bar the Indiana Daily Student from printing news. The same day, the newspaper’s former adviser sued ...