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Federal Courts' Camera Experiment Rolls On
After a slow start, the latest experiment of video cameras in federal courtrooms, announced last October, appears to be finally starting to roll. The first recording of a proceeding recorded under the...
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D.C. Courts Fight the Future in New Rule Limiting Electronic-Device Use in...
The Blog of the Legal Times reports that the Superior Court of the District of Columbia – the local trial court for the nation's capital – has issued a new administrative order regarding use of...
View ArticleCMLP Alert: Mass. SJC Rules on Impoundment of Inquest Materials in Amy Bishop...
On December 13, 2011, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that a judge of the Superior Court followed the wrong standard when denying a request by the Boston Globe for access to the...
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Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children?: A Few Modest Thoughts on Mass....
On February 7, 2012, the Joint Committee on the Judiciary of the Massachusetts Legislature will hold a hearing on Massachusetts Senate Bill No. 785, entitled "An Act relative to the protection of child...
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See No Evil: Study Says Judges Don't Find Jurors Using Social Media
The Federal Judicial Center has released a study which concludes that "detected social media use by jurors is infrequent, and that most judges have taken steps to ensure jurors do not use social media...
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We're Live, So Could Someone Please Wake Justice Ginsberg?
A bit of good news for those of us keen on open government: The Senate Judiciary Committee today voted 11 to 7 to allow television cameras into the Supreme Court. The text of Senate Bill 1945 is short...
View ArticleCMLP ANNOUNCEMENT: Mass. SJC Rejects Prior Restraints and Supports Right to...
The following is cross-posted with permission from our good friends at the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School. The original post can be found here. In an important victory for freedom of speech,...
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Service of Process, 2.0
The judicial system in the United States has kept up with technological change in many ways. We have electronic filing, websites for federal courts, and Internet streaming court coverage. But there is...
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Judge: Blogging from the Courtroom OK, Twitter Not So Much
As Bob Ambrogi reports, on February 19, 2013, Massachusetts Superior Court Justice Peter Lauriat held a hearing in the case of Commonwealth v. Fujita, a first-degree murder case going to trial in...
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"Newsgathering in Massachusetts" Guide Now Available Online!
The Digital Media Law Project is pleased to announce the online release of its new legal resource, Newsgathering in Massachusetts, co-produced with the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic. Our new...
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Who is a Journalist? Here We Go Again…
In the wake of the Associated Press and James Rosen incidents, the call for statutory protection for journalists and their sources has started anew. The Obama administration has called on Sen. Chuck...
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Ninth Circuit Starts Live Streaming, As Federal Camera Test Continues
In early December, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals announced that it would provide live-streams and archived video of oral arguments on its web site, starting later in the month. This makes it the...
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California Judicial Council Recommends Repeal of Law Criminalizing Juror...
In August 2011, California adopted a statute making it a crime for jurors to use social media and the Internet to do research or disseminate information about cases. Now, two years after the law went...
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With Cameras Banned in the Supreme Court, Undercover Video Emerges
People are discovering a recently-posted YouTube video that apparently shows both a portion of the oral argument in a campaign finance case in October 2013 and Wednesday's interruption of an oral...
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Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Some Federal Courts Post Audio Recordings Online
While the propriety of video and photography equipment in federal courts is subject of ongoing debate and testing, a number of federal bankruptcy courts and three federal district courts make audio...
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Federal Courts' Camera Experiment Rolls On
After a slow start, the latest experiment of video cameras in federal courtrooms, announced last October, appears to be finally starting to roll. The first recording of a proceeding recorded under the...
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D.C. Courts Fight the Future in New Rule Limiting Electronic-Device Use in...
The Blog of the Legal Times reports that the Superior Court of the District of Columbia – the local trial court for the nation's capital – has issued a new administrative order regarding use of...
View ArticleCMLP Alert: Mass. SJC Rules on Impoundment of Inquest Materials in Amy Bishop...
On December 13, 2011, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that a judge of the Superior Court followed the wrong standard when denying a request by the Boston Globe for access to the...
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Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children?: A Few Modest Thoughts on Mass....
On February 7, 2012, the Joint Committee on the Judiciary of the Massachusetts Legislature will hold a hearing on Massachusetts Senate Bill No. 785, entitled "An Act relative to the protection of child...
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See No Evil: Study Says Judges Don't Find Jurors Using Social Media
The Federal Judicial Center has released a study which concludes that "detected social media use by jurors is infrequent, and that most judges have taken steps to ensure jurors do not use social media...
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