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MLRC Bulletin Archive

MLRC Bulletin issues are listed in reverse chronology below.  An index of Bulletins by topic is also available.  Many MLRC Bulletins are the subjects of press releases that summarize their content and findings.

Issues of the MLRC Bulletin are linked below, and are available in PDF format.  Bulletins marked with a key symbol (Members Only) are accessible only to Media members, Enhanced Defense Counsel Section membersAssociate members, and Basic Defense Counsel Section member organizations that have purchased an online subscription.

Access to press releases is not restricted.

Annual subscriptions and individual issues (in hard copy) of the MLRC Bulletin are available to non-members by purchase from MLRC.

Bulletins were numbered consecutively from 1981 to 1988; publication resumed in 1992, and since 1993 bulletins have been numbered consecutively each year.

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1988

 

 

 

 

 

 

1992

1993

1994

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1996

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1998

1999

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2001

2002

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2004

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2007

2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bulletins (in reverse chronological order):

2008:

 

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2008 No. 3. (Sept 2008): MLRC’s Supreme Court Report

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2008 No. 2 (May 2008): Digital Media & Comments on Frontiers in Internet Law

Members Only

Bulletin 2008 No. 1 (Feb. 2008): MLRC 2008 Report on Trials and Damages

Press Release

  

 

 

2007:

 

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2007 No. 4 (Dec. 2007): MLRC 2007 Articles & Report on Significant Developments

Press Release

Members Only

Bulletin 2007 No. 4 Supplement (Mar. 2008): MLRC 2007 Articles & Report on Significant Developments

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2007 No. 3 (Sept. 2007): Publishing in the Global Environment: Developments in European and American Media Law

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2007 No. 2 Part B (Sept. 2007): 2007 Summary Judgment Study

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2007 No. 2 Part A (Sept. 2007): MLRC Supreme Court Report: Certiorari Petition in the 2006 Term

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2007 No. 1 (Feb. 2007): MLRC 2007 Report on Trials and Damages

Press Release

 

 

 

2006:

 

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2006 No. 3/4 Parts II & III (Dec. 2006): MLRC 2006 Articles & Report on Significant Developments

Press Release

Members Only

Bulletin 2006 No. 3/4 Part I (Dec. 2006): MLRC 2006 Articles & Report on Significant Developments

Press Release

Members Only

Bulletin 2006 No. 2 Part B (Aug. 2006): MLRC Supreme Court Report: Certiorari Petitions in the 2005 Term

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2006 No. 2 Part A (July 2006): MLRC 2005 Complaint Study

Press Release

Members Only

Bulletin 2006 No. 1 (Feb. 2006): MLRC 2006 Report on Trials and Damages

Press Release

 

 

 

2005:

 

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2005 No. 4 Part B (Jan. 2006): Confidential Source Litigation: Lessons from 2005

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2005 No. 4 Part A (Dec. 2005): When Government Shuts Out Critical Press: Government Retaliation and the First Amendment & MLRC 2005 Report on Significant Developments with an Update on Criminal Libel Developments

Press Release

Members Only

Bulletin 2005 No. 3 Part B (Aug. 2005): MLRC Supreme Court Report: Certiorari Petitions in the 2004 Term

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2005 No. 3 Part A (Aug. 2005): The Global Media: Comparative Studies on European and American Media Law

 

 

Bulletin 2005 No. 2 (March 2005): The Twenty-First Century Anti-Indecency Crusades: Radio, Television and Subscription Services

Press Release

Members Only

Bulletin 2005 No. 1 (Feb. 2005): MLRC 2005 Report on Trials and Damages

Press Release

 

 

 

2004:

 

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2004 No. 4 Part 3 (Jan. 2005): Media Access and Newsgathering in High Profile Cases

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2004 No. 4 Part 2 (Dec. 2004): Developments in Criminal Defamation Law Since 2002

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2004 No. 4 Part 1 (Dec. 2004): MLRC 2004 Report on Significant Developments

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2004 No. 3B (Oct. 2004): 2004 MLRC Motion to Dismiss Study

Press Release

Members Only

Bulletin 2004 No.3A (Sept. 2004): MLRC Supreme Court Report: Certiorari Petitions in the 2003 Term

 

 

Bulletin 2004 No. 2 (Aug. 2004): White Paper on the Reporter's Privilege

Press Release

 Members Only

Bulletin 2004 No. 1 (Feb. 2004): MLRC 2004 Report on Trials and Damages

Press Release 

 

 

 

2003:

 

 

 Members Only

Bulletin 2003 No. 4 Part 2 (Jan. 2004): Section 43A of the Lanham Act: Uses, Abuses, and Limits    

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2003 No. 4 Part 1 (Dec. 2003): MLRC 2003 Report on Significant Developments  

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2003 No. 3 Part B (Sept. 2003): MLRC's Supreme Court Report: A Review of the 2002 Term

 

 Members Only

Bulletin 2003 No. 3 Part A (Sept. 2003): International Media Liability: Articles on International Laws and Issues

 

 Members Only

Bulletin 2003 No. 2 (July 2003): MLRC 2003 Report on Trials and Damages    

Press Release

 Members Only

Bulletin 2003 No. 1 (March 2003): Criminalizing Speech About Reputation: The Legacy of Criminal Libel in the U.S. After Sullivan and Garrison    

Press Release

 

 

 

2002:

 

 

 Members Only

Bulletin 2002 No. 4 Part II (Jan. 2003): Post 9/11 Access: Responding to the National Security Challenge

 

Members Only

Bulletin 2002 No. 4 Part I (Dec. 2002): LDRC 2002 Report on Significant Developments

 

 Members Only

Bulletin 2002 No. 3 (Aug. 2002): 2001 Complaint Study; Supreme Court Report - 2001 Term 

Press Release

 Members Only

Bulletin 2002 No. 2 (March 2002): Criminal Prosecutions of the Press: The Espionage Act, Newsgathering Post-Bartnicki, Criminal Libel, Restricting Juror Interviews

Press Release

 Members Only

Bulletin 2002 No. 1 (Feb. 2002): LDRC 2002 Report on Trials and Damages    

Press Release

 

 

 

2001:

 

 

 Members Only

Bulletin 2001 No. 4 (Dec. 2001): LDRC 2001 Report on Significant Developments

Press Release

 Members Only

Bulletin 2001 No. 3 (Aug. 2001): 2001 Summary Judgment Study; Supreme Court Report - 2000 Term

Press Release

 Members Only

Bulletin 2001 No. 2 (April 2001): Significant Developments Part II: A New Battleground in the Clash of Ownership and Free Expression: The Expanding Definition of  Commercial Speech (Right of Publicity)

Press Release

 Members Only

Bulletin 2001 No. 1 (Feb. 2001): LDRC 2001 Report on Trials and Damages

Press Release

 

  

 

2000:

   

 

 Members Only

Bulletin 2000 No. 4 (Dec. 2000): LDRC 2000 Report on Significant Developments

 

 Members Only

Bulletin 2000 No. 3 (Aug. 2000): LDRC 2000 Report on Appellate Results; Supreme Court Report - 1999 Term

 

 Members Only

Bulletin 2000 No. 2 (June 2000): Fair Use in the Media: A Delicate Balance

Press Release

 Members Only

Bulletin 2000 No. 1 Part II (April 2000): Media Trials at the Close of the Century: Challenge and Change

 

 Members Only

Bulletin 2000 No. 1 (Jan. 2000): LDRC 2000 Report on Trials and Damages

Press Release

 

   

 

1999:

 

 

Members Only

Bulletin 1999 No. 3 Part II (Dec. 1999): Significant Developments Part II: The Media at the Millennium: A Collection of Articles on Significant Issues and Developments of the 1990’s

Press Release

Members Only

Bulletin 1999 No. 3 Part 1 (Oct. 1999): LDRC 1999 Report on Significant Developments

 

Members Only

Bulletin 1999 No. 2 (July 1999): The Texas Interlocutory Appeal Statute; Supreme Court Report, 1998 Term     

Press Release

Members Only

Bulletin 1999 No. 1 (Jan. 1999): LDRC 1999 Report on Trials and Damages    

Press Release

 

 

 

1998:

 

 

Members Only

Bulletin 1998 No. 4A (Dec. 1998): 1998 Significant Developments Part II: Legislation Aimed at “Paparazzi” Places All Journalists at Risk    

Press Release

Members Only

Bulletin 1998 No. 4 (Oct. 1998): LDRC 1998 Report on Significant Developments

 

Members Only

Bulletin 1998 No. 3 (May 1998): LDRC 1998 Report on Appellate Results / Supreme Court Report - 1997 Term    

Press Release

Members Only

Bulletin 1998 No. 2 (April 1998): Agricultural Disparagement Laws: The Trend to Impose Statutory Liability on Speech    

Press Release

Members Only

Bulletin 1998 No. 1 (Jan. 1998): LDRC 1998 Report on Trials and Damages    

Press Release 

 

   

 

1997:

 

 

Members Only

Bulletin 1997 No. 4 (Oct. 1997): LDRC 1997 Report on Significant Developments

 

Members Only

Bulletin 1997 No. 3 Part B (Aug. 1997): 1996 Term: A Report on Petitions for Certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States

 

Members Only

Bulletin 1997 No. 3 (July 1997): LDRC 1997 Report on Summary Judgment (includes articles and study)  

Press Release

Members Only

Bulletin 1997 No. 2 (April 1997): Damage Considerations When the Press is Sued for Gathering the News

 

Members Only

Bulletin 1997 No. 1 (Jan. 1997): 1996 LDRC Damages Study (includes Comparative Data: Results of Medical Malpractice and Products Liability Trials)    

Press Release

 

 

 

1996:

 

 

Members Only

Bulletin 1996 No. 4 (Oct. 1996): Key Findings of the 1996-97 LDRC 50-State Surveys

 

Members Only

Bulletin 1996 No. 3 (July 1996): LDRC Update on "Independent Appellate Review" in Defamation and Related Cases, 1984-1996

 

Members Only

Bulletin 1996 No. 2 (April 1996): LDRC Motion to Dismiss Study: Motions to Dismiss in Libel, Privacy, and Related Actions, 1981-1995

 

Members Only

Bulletin 1996 No. 1 (Jan. 1996): LDRC Damages Survey, 1994-95: Trial Results, Damage Awards and Post Trial Dispostions

 

 

 

 

1995:

 

 

Members Only

Bulletin 1995 No. 4 (Oct. 1995): Key Findings of LDRC's 50-State Surveys