2006 Conference Binder Materials

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NOW AVAILABLE: Breakout session outlines.

Geoffrey Robertson Speech: Perils of Publishing in the Global Age

Conference Program

Speakers Biographies

International Media Law

• Perils of Publishing in the Global Age: Contempt Issues: A Little Local Difficulty or Global Restriction?   
  • Gillian Phillips, Some background notes on the UK law of contempt
  • Articles on UK contempt of court

Access

• Access to Crime Scenes
  • New York Police Department Patrol Guide (excerpts): Release of Information to News Media, Incidents Involving Media Representatives
• Access to Dockets
  • Letter to Hon. Robert B. Bennett, Jr. and Hon. Karen E. Rushing re: Docket Closures in the Twelfth Judicial Circuit (Florida)
  • Agreed Order on Plaintiff’s Complaint, Knight Ridder, Inc. v. Forman, No. CACE 06-6684 (Fla. Cir. Ct. June 6, 2006).
  • In re: Interim Policy on Electronic Release of Court Records (Administrative Order), No. AOSC06-21 (Fla. June 30, 2006).
• Access to Disaster Scenes
  • Plaintiffs’ Complaint, Emergency Application for Temporary Restraining Order and Application for Injunctive Relief, CNN v. Brown, No. 05-3170 (S.D. Tex. Sept. 9, 2005).
  • Brief in Support of Plaintiffs’ Emergency Application for Temporary Restraining Order and Application for Injunctive Relief, CNN v. Brown, No. 05-3170 (S.D. Tex. Sept. 9, 2005).
    • Attachment: Connell v. Hudson, 17 Media L. Rep. 1803 (D. N.H. 1990).
  • Memorandum for record [regarding media access to recovery of deceased], Headquarters, Joint Task Force – Katrina (Sept. 10, 2005).
• Preventing Sealing Orders From Being Entered
  • Order, Bombay Co. v. Target Corp., Civil No. 06-339 (N.D. Tex. June 21, 2006).
• [Access to Courts and Court Records]
  • Federal Courts
    • S. 829 (109th Cong., 2nd Session) (April 18, 2005).
    • H.R. 2422 (109th Cong., 2nd Session) (May 18, 2005).
    • H.R. 4380 (109th Cong., 2nd Session) (Nov. 17, 2005).
    • S. 1768 (109th Cong., 2nd Session) (March 30, 2006).
  • State Courts
    • Burkle v. Burkle, No. B181878 (Cal. App. Jan. 20, 2006) (automatic sealing of financial records in divorce cases)
    • State ex. rel. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, LLC v. Garvey, No. SC 86952 (Mo. Dec. 20, 2005) (closure of juvenile proceedings).
    • Order Regarding Jury View of Scene, People v. Unger, No. 05-1955 (Mich. Cir. Ct. May 3, 2006) (media access).
    • People v. Odell, No. 15273 (N.Y. App. Div. Feb. 2, 2006) (appeal of conviction based on media access to trial).
    • Jury Service Resource Center v. De Muniz, No. SC52571 (Ore. April 27, 2006) (public access to jury pool records).
    • In re: Pilot Project for Electronic News Coverage in Indiana Trial Courts, No. 94S00-0605-MS-166 (Ind. May __, 2006) (order).
    • In re: Grand Jury Subpoena, Judith Miller, No. 04-3138 (D.C. Cir. Feb. 3, 2006) (on amicus curiae Dow Jones & Co., Inc.’s motion to unseal).

Defamation

Privacy and Property

Ethics

• Ripped from Real Life: Ethics Hypotheticals and Not-So-Hypotheticals
• Ethics Corner: Confidentiality and Phone Conversations, LDRC MediaLawLetter, June 2002, at 63.
• Ethics Corner [Chiquita case], MLRC MediaLawLetter, April 2003, at 68.
• Ethics Corner: Lawyers, Lies and Secret Taping, MLRC MediaLawLetter. Oct. 2003, at 83.
• Ethics Corner: Pre-Litigation Issues for Media Lawyers in the Post-Zabulake World, MLRC MediaLawLetter, Jan. 2004, ay 53.
• Ethics Corner: Unintended Consequences in Representing Multiple Media Clients, MLRC MediaLawLetter, June 2004, at 49.
• Ethics Corner: The Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege, the Corporation and the Journalist, MLRC MediaLawLetter, July 2004, at 70.
• Ethics Corner: Representing Multiple Clients: No Time for Complacency, MLRC MediaLawLetter, Aug. 2004, at 71.
• Ethics Corner: The Timing, Love and Tenderness Necessary to Effectively Represent Multiple Clients in Settlement Negociations, MLRC MediaLawLetter, Sept. 2004, at 54.
• Ethics Corner: Attorneys’ Duty to Conduct an Informed Electronic Discovery Project, MLRC MediaLawLetter, Oct. 2004, at 57.

Internet

• New Challenges and Familiar Themes in the Recent Case Law Considering Section 230
• Media Blogs: Spotting and Mitigating Their Risk
• Privacy Implications of Internet Searches
• The Google Library Project
• How to Target Advertising on the Internet While Respecting Trademark Owners’ Rights

Pre-Publication / Pre-Broadcast

• MLRC Committee Report: Prepublication / Prebroadcast Checklist, Discovery Roadmap (Oct. 2005).

Reporters’ Privilege: Protecting Sources in Criminal Cases

• When Communicating is a Crime: Protecting Sources in Criminal Cases and the Risks for the Journalists and Lawyers Involved (PowerPoint presentation)
  • Requires Microsoft PowerPoint (must be purchased) or PowerPoint viewer (free; click here to download)

Libel and Privacy Depositions 101

• Contents
• Bibliography of Deposition Resources
• Preparing the Reporter / Editor for Deposition
• Deposition Outline – Plaintiff
• Deposition Outline – Plaintiff’s Spouse
• Deposition Outline – Plaintiff’s Journalism Expert
• Hypothetical – WSNP’s Award-Winning Health Care report “Trauma Reality”

Advertising and Promotion

• Marketing, Promotion and Advertising for Publishers and Broadcasters – List of Topics
• 2006 Advertising Rate Card Copy and Contract Terms and Conditions, Vogue magazine.
• Marketing, Promotion and Advertising.

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Media Insurance

• Users’ Guide to Media Liability Insurance

Hot Issues for 2007 and Beyond

Trial Tales

• Trial Tales 2006 (covering trials from Sept. 9, 2004 to Aug. 17, 2006).
• Mock Trial Tales: Mock Libel Jury Trials in the United States, Canada and England
  • Appendix 1: The California Clarion (U.S. mock trial article)
  • Appendix 2: Court’s Instructions to the Jury – Mock Jury Exercise, NAA/NAB/MLRC 2004 Media Law Conference
  • Appendix 3: The Ontario Clarion (Canada mock trial article)
  • Appendix 4: Judge’s Charge to the Jury (Canada mock jury trial)
  • Appendix 5: MLRC London Conference: “Tea and Trial” (hypothetical)
  • Appendix 6: [London] Mock Jury Exercise: Instructions to the Jury
  • Appendix 7: Marjorie S. Fargo, The Use of Mock Trial Focus Groups for Trial Preparation.
  • Appendix 8: Summary of Mock Libel Suit, Ad IDEM (Toronto, Ontario, Nov. 20, 2004).
  • Appendix 9: Jason S. Bloom, Mock Trial and MLRC [London] Conference.

Other Materials

• Trial Tactics Bibliography