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Overview
Bartnicki v. Vopper, 532 U.S. 514 (2001) Reno v. ACLU, 521 U.S. 844 (1997) Turner Broadcasting v. FCC, 512 U.S. 622 (1994) Cohen v. Cowles Media Co.,501 U.S. 663 (1991) Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., 497 U.S. 1 (1990) Smith v. Daily Mail Publishing Co., 443 U.S. 97 (1979) Herbert v. Lando, 441 U.S. 153 (1979) First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti,435 U.S. 765 (1978) Zurcher v. Stanford Daily, 436 U.S. 547 (1978) Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn, 420 U.S. 469 (1975) Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241 (1974) Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665 (1972) New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971) Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC, 395 U.S. 367 (1969) New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) Grosjean v. American Press, 297 U.S. 233 (1936) Near v. Minnesota,283 U.S. 697 (1931)
Dienes, C. Thomas, Levine, Lee, and Lind, Robert, Newsgathering and the Law (2d ed. 1999), pp. 757-63) Doppelt, Jack C. and Phillip A. Montalvo, First Amendment Handbook: Access to Courts and Documents, 2001 Farish, Leah, The First Amendment: Freedom of Speech, Religion, and the Press, Springfield, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 1998 Kaplar, Richard T., Media Institute: First Amendment Advisory Council, Washington, D.C.: Media Institute, 1997 Levy, Leonard, Emergence of a Free Press (Oxford Univ. Press, 1985) Sanford, Bruce W., Libel & Privacy (2d ed.), Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall Law & Business, 1991 Van Alstyne, William W., First Amendment: Cases and Materials. Westbury, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 1995 Yalof, David Alistair, The First Amendment and the Media in the Court of Public Opinion, Cambridge, Mass., New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001
Cole, Tijani R., "The Courts and the Media Bench Book," 35 New Eng.L.Rev. 853 (2001) Fargo, Anthony L., "The Journalist’s Privilege for Nonconfidential Information in States without Shield Laws," 7 Comp.Lab.L. & Policy J. 241 (2002) Hafetz, Frederick P., "Gag Orders: Legal and Practical Issues Confronting the Media," 605 PLI/Pat 239 (2000) Lambe, Jennifer L., "Dimensions of Censorship: Reconceptualizing Public Willingness to Censor," 7 Comp.Lab.L. & Policy J. 187 (2002) Miller, Jennifer J., "Cameras in Courtrooms: The Lens of the Public Eye on our System of Justice," 13 MAR S.C. Law 25 (2002) Nelon, Robert D., "The Peculiar Case of State v. Terry Lynn Nichols: Are Television Cameras Really Banned From Oklahoma Criminal Proceedings?," 3 Vand.J.Ent.L. & Prac. 4 (2001) Steinfield, Joseph D., "Recent Developments in the Law of Access," 680 PLI/Pat 7 (2001) Stewart, Potter, “‘Or of the Press,’” 26 Hastings L.J. 639 (1975) Yuan, Loretta S., "Gag Orders and the Ultimate Sanction," 18 Loy.L.A.Ent.L.J. 629 (1998)
Radio-Television News Directors Association Media Institute Findlaw Illinois First Amendment Center American Association for Justice Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
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Journalist access
Supreme Court
Houchins v. KQED Inc., 438 U.S. 1 (1978)
Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665 (1972)
Richmond Newspapers Inc. v. Virginia, 448 U.S. 555 (1980)
Saxbe v. Washington Post Co., 417 U.S. 843 (1974)
Pell v. Procunier, 417 U.S. 817 (1974)
Other
Consumers Union of U.S., Inc. v. Periodical Correspondents’ Ass’n, 515 F.2d 1341 (U.S. App. D.C. 1975)
Connell v. Town of Hudson, 733 F.Supp. 465 (D.N.H. 1990)
Risenhoover v. England, 936 F. Supp. 392, 401 (W.D. Tex. 1995)
United States v. Webber, 2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11287 (E.D. Mich. 2003)
Westinghouse Broadcast.Corp. v. NTSB, 8 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1177 (D. Mass. 1982)
Shulman v. Group W Productions, Inc., 18 Cal.App.4th 200, 74 Cal.Rptr.2d 843 (1998)
City of Oak Creek v. King, 436 N.W.2d 285 (Wis. 1989).
Leiserson v. City of San Diego, 184 Cal.App.3d 41 (1986)
Florida Publishing Co. v. Fletcher, 340 So. 2d 914 (Fla. 1976), cert. denied, 431 U.S. 930 (1977)
Sherrill v. Knight, 569 F.2d 124, 130 (D.C. Cir. 1977)
Consumers Union of U.S. v. Periodical Correspondents’ Ass’n, 365 F. Supp. 18, 27 (D.D.C. 1973), rev’d on other grounds, 515 F.2d 1341 (D.C. Cir. 1975), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 1051 (1976)
Quad-City Community News Serv. v. Jebens, 334 F. Supp. 8, 17 (S.D. Iowa 1971)
Statutes
Alaska Stat. 26.23.200(1)(2004)
Cal. Penal Code 409.5(a),(d) (2004)
Mich. Comp. Laws §750.160a (2004)
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. 2917.13(B) (2004)
Dienes, C. Thomas; Levine, Lee, and Lind, Robert C., Newsgathering and the Law 2d (Charlottesville, Va.: Matthew Bender, 1999), § 8-3
Deputy Comm’r Public Information, “In House Press,” N.Y.P.D.
Model Penal Code §242.3
Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of the Press, “Photographers’ Guide to Privacy”; also see RCFP's Hidden-Camera Statutes and RTNDA's material on hidden cameras and microphones)
Restat.2d Torts §§652A-E (1977)
Student Press Law Center, “Student Media Guide to Newsgathering”
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Privacy & newsgathering
Supreme Court
Bartnicki v. Vopper, 532 U.S. 514 (2001)
Florida Star v. B.J.F., 491 U.S. 524 (1989)
Smith v. Daily Mail Publishing Co. 443 U.S. 97 (1979)
Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn, 420 U.S. 469 (1975)
Cantrell v. Forest City Pub. Co., 419 U.S. 245 (1974)
Time, Inc. v. Hill, 385 U.S. 374 (1967)
Other
Sanders v. American Broadcasting Cos., Inc., 978 P.2d 67 (Cal. 1998)
Shulman v. Group W. Productions, 955 P.2d 469 (Cal. 1998)
Eastwood v. National Enquirer, Inc., 123 F.3d 1249 (9th Cir. 1997)
Wolfson v. Lewis, 924 F.Supp. 1413 (E.D. Pa. 1996)
Virgil v. Time, Inc., 527 F.2d 1122 (9th Cir. 1975)
Galella v. Onassis, 487 F.2d 986 (2nd Cir. 1973)
Dietemann v. Time, Inc., 449 F.2d 245 (9th Cir. 1971)
Barber v. Time, Inc., 159 S.W.2d 291 (1942)
Alderman, Ellen, and Kennedy, Caroline. The Right to Privacy. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995)
Brandeis, Louis, and Warren, Samuel D. “The Right To Privacy,” 4 Harv. L. Rev. 193 (1890)
Harper, Jim. “Understanding Privacy — and the Real Threats To It,” No. 520 Policy Analysis of the Cato Institute, 8/4/04
Perry, Steven. “Hidden Cameras, New Technology, and the Law,” Communications Lawyer (Fall 1996), pg. 1, 19-22
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, “Photographers’ Guide to Privacy”
Wade, John W. “The Tort Liability of Investigative Reporters,” 37 Vand. L. Rev. 301 (1984)
Wilborn, Elizabeth S. “Revisiting the Public/Private Distinction: Employee Monitoring in the Workplace,” 32 Ga. L. Rev. 825 (1998)
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Blogging
Batzel v. Smith, 351 F.3d 904 (9th Cir. 2003)
Doe v. Cahill (Del.)(10/5/05)
Donato v. Moldow, 865 A.2d 711 (N.J.Super. 2005)
In Re: Grand Jury Subpoena, 397 F.3d 964 (D.C. Cir. 2005)(discussing blogger as journalist in dicta)
Electronic Frontier Foundation: Legal Guide for Bloggers
Cordtz, Dan. “Employee blogs that trash others can be actionable,” The Recorder, 7/26/05
Davis, Wendy N. “Fear of Blogging: As the Law Catches Up to Technology, Bloggers Look for a Few Good Attorneys,” 91 A.B.A. J. 16 (July 2005)
Hilden, Julie. “Can Bloggers Invoke the Journalist's Privilege to Protect Confidential Sources Who Leak Trade Secrets?” Findlaw.com, 4/26/05
Kline, Susan. “Curses, blogged again! What will you do when it happens to you?” Indiana Employment Law Letter (June 2005)
Segal, Jonathan A. “Off Duty Blogging: What’s Work Got to Do With It?” The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, (August 2005)
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Criminal libel
Supreme Court Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (1974) Curtis Publishing v. Butts/Associated Press v. Walker (1967) Ashton v. Kentucky (1966) New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964) Beauharnais v. Illinois (1952)
Other I.M.L. v. Utah (2002)
Chafee, Zechariah Jr., Free Speech in the United States. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1941 (reprinted 1964, 1967, 2001).
Lisby, Gregory C., “No Place in the Law: The Ignominy of Criminal Libel in American Jurisprudence,” Communication Law & Policy, 2004
Criminal-libel statutes, state by state
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Libel & defamation
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)
Gertz v. Welch, 418 U.S. 323 (1974)
Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, 388 U.S. 130 (1967) (consolidated with Associated Press v. Walker)
Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., 497 U.S. 1 (1990)
Rosenblatt v. Baer, 338 U.S. 75 (1966)
Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, 403 U.S. 29 (1971)
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568 (1942)
Heinke, Rex, Media Law (Edison, N.J.: BNA Books, 2000)
Knight, Al, The Life of the Law (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1996)
Levy, Leonard, Emergence of a Free Press (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985)
Nowak, John, and Rotunda, Ronald, Constitutional Law (5th ed.)
Wagman, Robert, The First Amendment Book (New York: Scripps Howard, 1991)
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Broadcasting
Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes, 523 U.S. 666 (1998) Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844 (1997) Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC, 512 U.S. 622 (1994) Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241 (1974)
Timeline: broadcast decency Timeline: TV, regulation and broadcast violence
Davidson, Chad, “Government Must Demonstrate That There Is Not a Less Restrictive Alternative Before a Content-Based Restriction of Protected Speech Can Survive Strict Scrutiny,” 70 Miss. L.J. 457 (2000)
Emord, Jonathan W., Freedom, Technology and the First Amendment. San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute, 1991
Levi, Lili, The FCC's Regulation of Indecency, a First Report from the First Amendment Center
Powe, Lucas A., American Broadcasting and the First Amendment. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987
Robinson, Glen O., “The Electronic First Amendment: An Essay for the New Age,” 47 Duke L.J. 899 (1998)
Shapiro, Stephen J., “How Internet Non-Regulation Undermines the Rationales Used to Support Broadcast Regulation,” 8 Media L. & Policy 1 (1999)
Kyu Ho Youm, “Editorial Rights of Public Broadcasting Stations vs. Access for Minor Political Candidates to Television Debates,” 52 Fed. Comm. L.J. 687 (2000)
Federal Communications Commission
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State constitutions
Supreme Court Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., 497 U.S. 1 (1990) Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, 477 U.S. 242 (1986) Michigan v. Long, 463 U.S. 1032 (1983) Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323 (1974) Rosenbloom v. Metromedia,403 U.S. 29 (1971) New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)
Other Firth v. State of New York, __ N.Y.2d __, 2002 N.Y. Slip Op. 05514 (July 2, 2002) Wampler v. Higgins, 752 N.E.2d 962, 970-972 (Ohio 2001) State ex rel. Sports Mgmt. News, Inc. v. Nachtigal, 921 P.2d 1304 (Or. 1996) Vail v. The Plain Dealer Publ’g Co., 649 N.E.2d 182, 188 (Ohio 1995) West v. Thomson Newspapers, 872 P.2d 999, 1020 (Utah 1994) Sassone v. Elder, 626 So.2d 345 (La. 1993) Davenport v. Garcia, 834 S.W.2d 4, 18 (Tex. 1992) Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., 77 N.Y.2d at 246-248 (1990) Immuno AG v. Moor-Jankowski, 77 N.Y.2d 235 (1991) ("Immuno II") Immuno AG v. Moor-Jankowski, 74 N.Y.2d 548, 556 (1989) ("Immuno I") Davidson v. Rogers, 574 P2d 624, 626 (Or. 1978)
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Brennan, William J. Jr., “State Constitutions and the Protection of Individual Rights,” 90 Harv. L. Rev. 489 (1977) Kaye, Judith S., “Dual Constitutionalism in Practice and Principle,” 61 St. John's L. Rev. 399 (1987) Kaye, Judith S., “State Courts at the Dawn of a New Century: Common Law Courts Reading Statutes and Constitutions,” 70 N.Y.U. L. Rev.1 (1995) Kaye, Judith S., “The Third Branch and the Fourth Estate,” Media Studies Journal, Winter 1998, 74; “Rethinking Traditional Approaches,” 62 Alb. L. Rev. 1491 (1999) Lewis, Anthony, Make No Law (New York: Random House, 1991) Linde, Hans A. “E Pluribus — Constitutional Theory and State Courts,” 18 Ga. L. Rev. 165 (1984)
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