MediaLawLetter Index

Last updated March 15, 2010

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This index categorizes the MLRC MediaLawLetter since its first edition as the LDRC LibelLetter in April 1994. The publication’s name was changed to the LDRC MediaLawLetter in March 2002, and to the MLRC MediaLawLetter in January 2003.

The index breaks down articles into three sections: by case name (where the case is featured prominently, or is the subject of, the article); by topic; and by jurisdiction (for statutes and articles about current legislative trends). The index indicates the month and year in which the article appeared and, in parenthesis, the page on which the article began. We welcome your comments on ways to improve the index before its next edition.

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All citations give issue date, with page number in parenthesis. The earliest issue (formally undated) was 4/94.

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ABA

Mentor Team Program: 8/96 (12)

Right of Publicity Resolution: 12/03(6)

Access

911 Tapes: 3/96(13), 4/02(33), 9/03(25); 8/04(47); 4/05(34)

9/11 Materials: 4/05(31)

Abu Ghraib Photos: 10/05(47)

Accident Reports: 12/99(8), 7/03(39)

Administrative Proceedings: 2/10(31)

“AIPAC case”: see United States v. Rosen and Weissman

Ancillary Proceedings: 1/04(8)

Arizona Public Records Law: 5/07(45); 11/09(29)

Arrestees (names & addresses): 7/98(37), 2/99(17), 12/99(1), 11/02(35), 6/03(5), 8/03(45)

Arrest Video Tapes: 11/03(43)

Arrest Report: 4/05(33)

Arrest Warrant: 8/03(45), 9/03(20)

Attorney speech: 4/07(46)

Audio Tapes, as evidence: 11/00(29), 11/02(41)

Autopsy Photographs: 10/03(33), 12/03(39); 4/05(38)

Autopsy Reports: 4/06(42); 2/09(35)

Bail hearings: 3/03(47)

Preliminary Army Hearings: 7/97 (24)

Bankruptcy Filings: 9/06(37)

Burial records: 6/09(24)

Calendars (public official): 4/99(39), 8/02(41)

Cameras

in the Courtroom: 2/96 (7), 3/96 (23), 6/96 (5), 5/97 (14), 3/99(10), 4/99(35), 5/99(32), 6/00(39), 10/00(31), 6/01(37), 10/01(47), 1/02(3), 2/02(32), 12/02(44), 12/02(45), 3/03(42), 4/03(57), 6/03(53,55), 7/03(34), 8/03(44), 8/03(46), 10/03(30), 10/03(35), 1/04(38), 2/04(47, 48); 6/05 (63), 10/05(54), 5/06(40); 5/08(41); 9/08(31); 1/09(29); 10/09(39); 1/10(12)

in Execution Chamber: 8/04(49)

in the Jury Room: 6/96 (5), 10/96 (20)

to official public events: 11/03(39)

In the Supreme Court: 10/05(54)

Catholic Diocese Records: 11/03(42); 5/05 (33)

Cell phone records: 1/09(26)

Child protective agencies: 2/05(45), 7/06(19)

Citizen only FOIA’s: 8/06(41)

Civil Trials: 9/96 (15), 3/98 (24), 8/99 (3), 12/99(23), 1/00(38), 10/01(37), 7/02(45), 11/02(37), 11/02(51), 3/03(46), 5/03(41), 7/03(37)

Closure/Gag/Protective Orders: 4/96 (1), 7/96 (7), 9/96 (15), 10/97 (23), 11/97 (26), 4/99(33), 11/99(16), 5/00(33), 5/00(37), 6/00(35), 6/00(37), 7/00(19), 8/00(34), 8/00(35), 7/01(57), 9/01(37, 38), 10/01(37, 39, 41), 3/02(17, 21), 7/02(31), 8/02(25, 43), 9/02(34), 11/02(37), 4/03(55), 5/03(51), 9/03(19), 5/06(41)

Ashcraft hearings: 8/02(45)

Classified: 6/03(57)

Classified Evidence / AIPAC: 4/07(3)

Closed accident scene: 6/09(29)

Common Law right: 11/02(37)

Congress: 5/03(48)

Credentials (WorldNetDaily): 3/02(22), 3/03(36)

Corporations: 1/04(39), 2/04(51)

Court Filings: 10/02(15), 11/02(37), 1/03(39), 2/03(37), 2/03(45), 3/03(37), 3/03(47), 3/03(48), 5/03(39), 6/03(47), 11/03(37), 9/05(21), 9/05(25), 9/05(29), 1/06 (33); 7/09(40)

Constitution right to access (New Hampshire): 1/06 (33)

Internet Access: 7/06(21)

Sealed Dockets: 4/07(39)

Court-Martial Proceeding: 3/05(41)

Courtrooms: 10/04(33), 10/05(54), 3/06(36); 1/10(8)

Webcastings: 4/09(38); 10/09(39); 11/09(30)

Blogging: 1/10(32)

Credentials: 12/02(4), 3/03(36)

Criminal Complaint, Sealing of: 9/01(37), 12/03(47)

Criminal justice records: 11/05(41)

Criminal records (expunged): 1/03(27)

Criminal Trials: 9/96 (15), 11/96 (8), 12/96 (1, 15), 6/98(23), 2/00(33), 3/00(35), 4/00(36), 7/00(19), 6/01(38), 1/02(33), 9/02(40), 10/02(15), 12/02(44), 12/02(45), 1/03(37), 1/03(44), 2/03(25), 3/03(34), 4/03(54), 5/03(43), 5/03(44), 6/03(5), 8/03(44), 8/03(45), 9/03(17), 9/03(23); 9/04(42); 1/05(9), 9/05(25), 6/06(39); 1/10(33)

Attorney speech, Limitations on: 4/07(46)

Gag orders: 4/03(54), 8/03(45); 3/05(39)

Jokes (Jay Leno/Michael Jackson trial): 3/05(39)

Juror access: 3/07(43); 6/07(35)

Unsealing files: 4/07(52)

Crime Scene Photos: 12/05(43)

Crime Victims: 1/00(37)

Critical Infrastructure Information: 9/03(33), 3/04(35)

Debates (Exclusion of Candidates): 3/02(39)

Delaware: 8/06(41)

Depositions: 7/98(34), 8/98(20), 9/98(20), 2/99(19), 6/00(32), 12/01(35), 3/02(33); 1/05(39)

Detentions of Suspected Terrorists: 10/01(53), 4/02(61), 11/02(35), 1/06 (29)

Dockets: 5/03(41), 5/03(43), 11/03(37)

Documents After Dismissal: 9/04(39)

Disaster relief: 6/07(39)

Discovery materials: 6/99(17), 3/00(29), 12/01(35), 2/03(33), 4/03(51), 7/03(37); 8/04(45); 9/05(21); 3/07(49); 4/07(43)

Divorce:

Pleadings:1/06 (32)

Court Records: 3/06(41)

Settlements: 11/07(22)

United Kingdom: 3/08(39)

Electronic Access

Court Access: 1/03(41), 2/03(35), 4/03(57); 11/09(30)

E-Government Act: 1/03(39)

E-mails

Catholic Church: 4/02(37)

Elected Official’s Personal: 9/05(27)

Email Records of government officials : 5/07(45); 6/08(37); 1/09(27)

Embedded Reporters at Trade Meetings: 12/03(41)

Embedded Reporters with US Military: 2/04(54)

Energy Task Force: 12/03(56)

Equal Access to official public events: 11/03(37)

Estate Files: 3/05(45)

Evidence Presented at Trial:

Contemporaneous access: 3/06(35)

Crime Scene Photos: 12/05(43)

Mob trial/cooperating witness audio tapes: 3/05(43)

Executions: 4/96 (6), 6/98(25), 8/98(19), 8/99 (7), 8/00(29), 8/02(49)

Executive Branch: 9/02(44), 11/02(39), 11/02(41), 11/02(43), 12/02(35), 12/02(39), 1/03(39), 2/03(20), 3/03(35), 3/03(43), 4/03(49), 4/03(61), 5/03(45), 6/03(56), 7/03(31), 7/03(33), 7/03(35), 9/03(15)

Energy Task Force: 7/03(33), 9/03(15)

Office of Homeland Security/Department of Homeland Security: 1/03(32), 4/03(67), 8/03(50), 9/03(33)

Pardon records: 4/03(49)

Presidential Records: 2/03(20)

Executive Privilege (state): 1/05(38)

Farm Conservation Information, 4/02(39)

Files, Remote Electronic Access: 9/01(32), 4/02(33), 5/02(26), 3/04(33)

Files in Civil Court, Unsealing of: 10/00(27), 11/00(23), 5/02(29), 11/02(37), 7/03(37)

Financial Disclosure Forms: 3/00(32)

Firearm records: 12/02(39), 3/03(35), 6/03(56)

Foreign

Canada: 3/02(19)

Inter-American Court of Human Rights: 10/06(47)

United Kingdom: 3/99(46), 2/02(35) 9/05(43); 3/08(38)

Super-injunctions: 11/09(32)

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and: 12/00(30), 10/01(53), 3/02(37), 8/02(55), 11/02(35), 11/02(39), 12/02(35), 12/02(39), 1/03(32), 2/03(39), 3/03(35), 3/03(45), 4/03(49), 4/03(61), 4/03(63), 6/03(5), 6/03(53), 8/03(50), 9/03(28), 9/03(29), 12/03(43), 1/04(14), 2/04(51, 55), 8/04(43); 9/04(32); 1/05(33), 10/05(47), 1/06 (29), 4/06(43), 6/06(43); 10/06(55); 3/07(45); 12/07(46); 1/08(33); 2/08(32); 3/08(20)

Addresses of Aid Recipients: 4/06(43)

“Agency”: 1/03(32), 2/03(39), 4/03(63)

Applied to Corporations: 2/04(51)

Arrest records: 12/06(32)

Discovery: 12/06(32)

Executive Order 13392: 6/06(43)

Exemptions:

Critical infrastructure: 12/01(42)

Criminal investigation: 6/03(5), 9/03(29)

Intra-agency: 1/08(34)

NSA: 6/03(55)

Privacy: 1/06 (29); 9/06(38); 1/09(23)

2006 Proposed exemptions: 5/06(45)

FBI Records: 9/06(38

FEMA Materials: 4/06(43); 6/07(39), 8/07(21)

General Accounting Office Survey: 9/03(28)

Guantanamo Bay: 10/06(55); 12/06(31)

Open Government Act of 2004: 6/06(43)

Open Government Act of 2007: 1/08(38)

Open Government Legislation: 7/07(45)

Presidential Communications Privilege: 4/03(49)

Sentencing Materials: 3/07(45)

State statutes: 4/03(55); 2/08(32)

Functional Equivalence Test: 10/02(49)

Government Officials: 1/05(31); 2/05(43)

Publishing Home Addresses of: 10/07(6)

Grand Jury Proceedings: 3/98 (24), 4/98 (26), 5/98 (27), 6/98(24), 7/98(33), 8/98(17), 10/98(36), 8/99 (3), 1/00(39), 8/01(7), 4/03(54), 8/03(49), 11/05(11)

Guardianship Records / Proccedings: 9/06(39)

Habeas proceeding records: 6/09(26)

Height & Weight of Detainees: 12/06(31)

HIPAA, Effects of: 2/04(49), 3/06(33); 4/07(35)

Hostage situations: 12/98(16)

Impeachment proceedings: 2/99(17)

Immigration Proceedings: 4/02(31), 6/02(60), 7/02(36), 9/02(3), 10/02(11), 11/02(41), 12/02(37), 2/03(11), 2/03(43), 2/03(45), 3/03(9), 6/03(47), 9/03(35)

New DOJ regulations: 6/02(60)

In camera review: 5/07(45)

Interview Outtakes: 4/07(44)

Investigations: 6/03(5), 6/03(56), 11/03(42); 11/08(36)

Judicial Records: 1/96 (5,7), 1/97 (15), 7/97 (25),7/98(34), 10/98(41,43), 5/99(23), 11/99(17), 3/00(33),11/00(27), 6/02(60), 8/02(3), 12/02(38), 2/03(35), 2/03(37), 3/03(47), 4/03(63), 3/04(33); 9/04(44), (45); 1/05(9)

Opinions: 1/03(46), 9/03(19), 11/05(11)

Judicial Proceedings: 10/98(43), 9/02(41), 11/02(41), 4/03(51, 65), 5/03(39), 5/03(43), 5/03(44), 9/03(17)

Juror/Jury

Courthouse, entering or leaving: 6/06(38)

Deliberations: 3/03(34)

Juror Interviews: 11/97 (23), 3/98 (21, 22), 11/01(19), 5/02(27), 6/02(51), 8/02(47), 3/03(35); 2/10(33)

Juror names: 6/99(19), 6/01(40), 11/01(19), 5/02(27), 6/02(51), 8/02(47), 1/03(35); 4/05(37); 4/07(41); 5/07(47); 6/07(35); 8/08(38)

Juror Questionnaires: 3/07(43); 8/08(41)

View of crime scene: 5/06(43)

Voir dire: 1/03(35), 2/04(45); 9/04(29); 1/10(8)

Juvenile proceedings/records: 7/06(15)

Labor strategies: 2/05(47)

Law Enforcement Information: 1/03(45), 6/03(5), (49)

Police Personnel and Information: 4/98 (10), 10/98(36), 6/03(49)

Leaks: 11/02(41), 12/02(35), 6/03(57), 8/03(41), 8/03(45)

Legal Bills: 12/03(51)

Level 1, 2, 3 Cases (Connecticut): 5/03(41)

Mayor: 3/04(31)

Medical records: 6/03(51)

Meetings: 3/05(42)

Military, In times of war: 10/01(53), 11/01(45), 1/02(37), 2/02(39), 3/02(41), 9/02(37), 10/02(55), 12/02(35), 2/03(41)

1992 Principles for Military Access: 10/01(53, 60), 10/05(53)

Embedding of media: 2/03(42), 4/03(65), 5/03(34), 6/03(59), 7/03(32), 9/03(35)

Military secrets/national security privilege: 3/03(44), 7/03(26)

Military Tribunals: 4/02(61), 5/03(59); 3/05(41)

Motion Papers: 3/00(31), 10/02(53)

Motor Vehicle Registrations: 1/00(47)

Mug Shots: 9/05(23); 9/05(24)

Names of Detainees: 4/02(61), 11/02(35)

National Security: 12/06(31); 1/09(24)

Oral arguments: 3/03(46), 4/03(51, 65), 5/03(39)

Out-of-State Citizens: 8/06(41)

Peer Review: 6/00(11)

Personnel records: 6/03(49), 7/03(35), 9/05(28)

Photographs: 12/06(31)

Plea agreements: 12/02(38)

Police disciplinary files: 4/08(49)

Police Officer personnel photographs: 8/05 (30)

Post-September 11: 9/02(39), 10/02(11), 10/02(53), 11/02(35), 11/02(41), 12/02(35), 2/03(44), 4/03(51,65), 5/03(48), 6/03(5), 6/03(58),

Preliminary Hearing: 10/03(29)

Pretrial Hearing: 9/03(17), 9/03(23), 11/05(45)

Press Room: 8/02(53)

Prisons, prisoners: 5/03(48), 6/03(5), 7/03 (32); 8/05 (32); 1/08(18)

Psychiatric Records: 10/98(41)

Public Records: 2/00(31), 6/00(33), 7/02(29), 9/02(40), 10/02(49), 11/02(39), 2/03(35), 2/03(45), 3/03(48), 4/03(55), 6/03(47), 11/03(45), 12/03(48), 1/04(35), 9/05(23), 9/05(24), 9/05(27), 9/05(28), 10/05(48), 11/05(41); 1/08(36); 6/08(37); 8/08(44); 12/08(35); 2/09(32)

Government Employee Records: 11/03(45), 9/05(28); 9/07(31)

Maine: 7/08(34)

Private Diary of public official: 12/03(48)

Unsubstantiated Claims: 8/08(42)

Youth records: 4/03(55)

Quarterly Reports: 1/05(37)

Reporter’s Notes: 5/03(54)

Retaliatory Denial of: 6/00(33, 38)

Right-to-Know (Sunshine) Laws: 2/98 (17), 10/98(39), 10/02(51), 4/03(66); 11/07(23)

Satellite Photos: 10/01(53)

Sealing of court records: 1/03(31), 5/03(39), 9/03(19), 10/03(35), 12/03(45), 5/06(41); 7/08(17); 5/09(35)

Search Warrants: 6/02(59), 3/03(39), 8/03(45), 9/03(20), 9/03(23), 3/04(36); 8/05(31); 12/08(33)

Settlements: 8/98(19), 7/00(1), 12/00(27), 1/01(19), 2/01(24), 9/01(30), 10/01(39), 2/02(31), 11/02(51); 9/04(39)

Sex offender database: 6/09(28)

Sexually violent predator act proceedings: 2/08(27)

Show Cause Hearings: 4/07(41)

Speeches/award ceremonies: 3/03(17)

Speed of Access: 1/06 (32)

Sport Events: 4/00(35)

State rules: 3/03(43)

Student publications: 12/06(33)

Surveillance Tapes: 8/01(11), 7/06(17)

Tapes of reporters’ conversations: 5/03(61)

Telephone records: 4/99(39), 5/03(45)

Terrorist Victims’ Courtroom Access Act: 1/02(4)

Toxic Release Inventory: 10/05(55)

Trade Secrets: 2/06(32)

Troops: 11/01(45), 1/02(37)

University Board of Regents Meetings: 11/03(47)

University Presidential Candidates: 8/04(48)

Unsealing of court records: 10/03(35)

Warrants (arrest, search): 9/03(20), 10/03(29)

Washington State Public Disclosure Act: 10/05(48); 1/10(10)

White House logs: 12/07(31)

Witnesses: 8/03(44)

Written Questions Only: 12/03(42)

Actual Malice: See Libel, defenses/privileges

Application to Breach of Contract Claim, 4/99(7), 10/00(25), 8/07(11)

Administrative Procedure Act: 4/03(63)

Adult Content Producers: 2/06(43)

Advertising/Commercial Speech: 10/94 (5), 6/95 (5), 2/96 (5), 5/96 (1), 3/97(9), 12/97 (11), 3/98 (8), 7/98(38), 1/99(28), 6/99(21), 8/99 (27), 11/99(7), 2/00(22), 11/00(7), 5/01(13), 6/01(19), 7/01(11), 10/01(35), 12/01(15), 7/02(9), 10/02(29), 11/02(23), 11/02(25), 2/03(47), 4/03(10), 4/03(47), 4/03(48), 6/03(61), 6/03(79), 7/03(7), 7/03(53), 8/03(13), 9/03(5), 12/03(35), 3/04(45, 47), 9/05(32), 9/05(47), 11/05(13), 1/06 (39), 3/06(12); 3/08(29); 12/09(10); 2/10(3)

Attorney Advertising: 7/95 (1), 6/03(79), 11/05(13), 1/06 (53), 3/06(12); 1/09(32); 9/09(41)

New York: 7/07(43)

Book Covers: 4/07(26)

Brothels (Legal Brothels in Nevada): 9/07(40)

Campaign Advertising: 7/07(3); 1/10(3)

Compelled Funding of Commercial Speech: 7/97(6), 2/01(27), 7/01(14)

Consumer Fraud: 2/00(5), 6/00(25), 4/03(48), 6/03(61)

Consumer protection laws: 1/06 (53)

Consumer reports: 6/03(15)

Consumer survey: 8/03(62)

Corporation Responding to Criticism: 5/02(3)

Drugs, Prescription: 7/07(45)

Endorsements and testimonials: 12/09(10)

Entertainment’s Marketing of Violence to Children, FTC Report on: 5/01(19)

False Advertising: 10/02(29), 2/03(47), 4/03(47), 7/03(7), 9/03(5), 3/04(16, 45), 1/06 (39), 8/07(23); 2/08(12)

Media liability: 1/06 (39)

First Amendment Protections: 6/00(25, 27)

Gambling Ads: 6/05 (73), 3/06(48)

Internet / Website Advertising: 4/07(7)

Keyword Advertising: 4/09(3)

France: 6/08(33)

Media Marketing Accountability Act, Proposed: 5/01(17)

Misappropriation: 7/07(7); 6/08(28)

Movie Marketing: 3/04(45)

Non-commercial, ruled to be: 12/06(23); 6/08(25)

Political advertising: 2/03(15), 8/07(17); 8/09(12)

Practical Matters of Provocative Promotional Announcements: 6/02(15)

Telemarketing: 6/03(61), 6/03(63)

Weight Loss Advertising: 2/03(47)

Agricultural Disparagement: 9/98(28), 3/99(9)

Alar Scare (Auvil v. CBS “60 Minutes”): 10/96 (24)

California: 5/07(25)

France: 8/01(43)

Perishable Products Disparagement Laws: 4/94 (3), 6/94 (4), 3/95 (5), 5/95 (10), 6/95(1, 13), 11/95 (12), 2/96 (1), 4/96 (15), 6/96 (7), 4/97(6), 1/98 (1), 2/98 (1), 3/98(1), 4/98 (4), 5/98 (11), 7/98(7)

American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC):

See United States v. Rosen and Weissman (E.D. Va.)

Alternative Dispute Resolution: 8/95 (5), 10/96 (1)

American Law Institute:

International Jurisdiction and Judgments Project: 11/02 (9); 1/03 (5); 11/04 (47); 6/05 (57)

Also see Restatements

Anonymous Speech: 10/05(13), 1/06 (06), 8/09(15); 8/09(17); 9/09(20)

Anticybersquatting Statute: 3/00(15)

Antiprofanity Statutes: 3/00(32)

Anti-SLAPP Statutes: 7/94 (3), 9/94 (3), 5/95 (5), 8/95 (3), 6/96(9), 9/96(9), 11/96 (4), 2/97 (11), 3/97(7), 4/97 (29), 8/97(15), 10/97 (18), 12/97 (8), 5/98 (9), 9/98(10), 10/98(26), 11/98(14), 12/98(25), 2/99(9), 3/99(13), 4/99(13), (14), 7/99(7), 9/99 (23), 10/99(42),10/00(5), 11/00(15), 12/00(9), 1/01(17), 3/01(11)(13), 6/01(27), 7/01(39), 8/01(10, 31) 9/01(25), 10/01(26), 11/01(34), 2/02(25), 9/02(31), 10/02(41), 11/02(33), 2/03(19), 4/03(47), 6/03(14), 6/03(25), 7/03(20), 7/03(25), 8/03(35, 37), 11/03(27), 12/03(30), 2/04(9), 3/04(7, 11); 9/04(14); 10/04(25, 26); 11/04 (26); 1/05(23, 25); 2/05(31); 4/05(18), 10/05(40), 11/05(34), 12/05(17), 5/06(29), 6/06(17), 6/06(22), 8/06(21); 2/07(11); 3/07(9); 7/07(23); 12/07(11); 12/07(13); 2/08(17)

Arizona: 5/06(30)

California: 10/06(39); 2/07(11); 3/07(9); 7/07(23); 12/07(11); 12/07(13); 2/08(17); 3/08(27); 3/08(28); 6/08(8); 6/08(18); 8/08(20); 12/08(15); 5/09(20); 5/09(22); 6/09(12); 9/09(10); 12/09(18)

“Conduct illegal as a matter of law”: 8/06(21)

Discovery versus Anti-SLAPP Statutes: 9/01(25); 6/08(8)

Employment (retaliation / termination): 7/07(23)

Fee Shifting: 5/06(29)

Georgia: 10/05(40); 12/06(11); 5/08(22); 10/09(36)

Illinois: 9/07(23); 10/07(14)

Inapplicability of Anti-SLAPP Statute to Newsgathering claims: 1/02(23)

Indiana: 5/06(29)

Internet: 12/06(11); 6/07(15)

Anonymous blogger: 6/08(18); 8/09(17); 09/9(25)

Louisiana: 4/09(15)

Movie: 2/07(11); 3/07(9)

Maine: 4/08(34)

Massachusetts: 5/09(24); 2/10(12)

New Jersey: 5/09(27)

New York: 10/06(36); 9/07(24)

Oregon: 4/09(16)

Preliminary Substantive Review required: 12/03(30)

Public Forum standard: 8/03(37)

Public Interest Standard: 3/00(12), 4/03(47), 6/03(14), 8/03(37)

Utah: 6/09(6)

Anti-terrorism bill: 10/01(53)

Antitrust: 10/99(31), 11/99(39), 1/01(35), 1/03(7); 9/04(16)

April Fools: 6/03(40)

Asylum: 4/03(72)

Attorney-Client Privilege: 9/05(19)

Attorney Discipline: 12/04(59); 9/07(41)

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Bankruptcy: 12/04(34); 9/06(37)

Blair, Jayson: 6/03(7), 6/03(39)

Bloggers: See Cyberspace

Book Author:

Defamation: 4/07(23)

Shield laws: 3/07(13)

Book Reviews: 4/94 (1), 9/94(1),12/94(1), 3/95(13), 9/96(5), 2/98 (21), 8/00(33), 4/02(56), 5/03(61)

Breach of Contract: 5/99(1)(3), 2/03(11), 6/03(25); 1/08(21); 10/09(31)

Application of actual malice standard to, 4/99(7), 10/00(25), 8/07(11)

Broadcasting:

Expletives: 6/07(28)

Family Friendly Programming: 7/07(45)

Non-Compete Clauses: 9/08(33)

Violence on Television: 5/07(51)

Broadcasters

Broadcast Standards Commission (UK): 5/00(48)

False Light Claims: 9/06(9)

Indecency: 9/04(28); 12/04(49); 1/05(51), 3/06(45), 7/06(33); 1/08(37); 2/08(36)

Intimidation of: 9/05(47)

License Renewal: 1/05(51)

Loss of license: 8/04(57)

Regulations (2004): 12/04(49)

Voluntary Limits on Terrorist Videotapes: 10/01(53)

Business Disparagement: 1/04(3); 12/06(22)

Business Publications: 7/07(21)

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Cable

Cable Access: 11/96 (21), 6/97 (19), 7/97 (28)

Cable Act of 1984: 7/96 (11)

Cable Act of 1992: 7/96 (1)

Editorial Rights: 7/00(21)

Indecency: 7/96 (1), 7/99(35), 6/00(43), 5/01(21)

Cameras

Courtroom: 11/04 (25), 4/06(55), 6/06(38); 12/07(47);10/09(39); 1/10(12)

Indiana: 5/06(40)

Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2007: 10/07(46)

Campaign Finance: 9/05(49), 10/05(15); 7/07(3); 10/07(42); 6/09(32); 1/10(3)

Canada: 6/09(20)

Canfield, Peter: 12/07(3)

Cartoons: 8/03(43); 9/09(10)

Defamation claims: 5/07(21)

Censorship

Library Books: 10/00(35), 2/03(38)

Newspapers: 2/03(5)

Citation of Unpublished Decisions: 4/06(53)

Civil Rights: 10/99(44), 10/02(19), 11/05(44); 3/08(26); 4/08(20)

Clients

Ethical considerations: 8/02(59)

Collateral Estoppel: 10/96 (14), 4/97 (26), 11/98(10)

Commercial Speech, see Advertising

Commercial Confidence (breach of): 4/03(37)

Commercial Disparagement: 9/06(15)

Commodity Exchange Act: 8/99 (29)

Computer Code as Speech: 12/01(53), 1/02(40)

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: 2/06(38); 5/08(13)

Conflict of Interest: 11/96 (11)

Confidential Conversations

Secret recording of: 4/02(21)

Confidential Records: 9/06(27)

Confidential Sources

Also see Reporters Privilege, infra

Disclosure by Attorney: 9/05(19)

Fifth Amendment Privilege against revealing: 2/10(30)

Public Perception: 10/04(32)

Disclosure in Court, Journalist’s Liability: 4/06(37)

Congress: 5/09(7)

Contests: 4/08(10)

Contingency Fees

United Kingdom: 12/98(29), 11/05(39)

Contract

Breach of: 2/06(21); 10/07(32); 3/08(28)

Forum selection clause: 2/08(11)

Copyright: 4/94 (1), 3/95 (7), 9/95 (1), 10/95 (5), 2/96(2), 9/96(3), 1/97 (1, 16), 2/97 (1), 2/99(25)(27), 6/99(39), 5/00(43), 7/00(36), 3/01(25), 6/01(17, 18), 9/01(30), 10/01(7), 4/02(4), 9/02(45), 10/02(30), 12/02(41), 1/03(10), 1/03(13), 3/03(6), 4/03(41), 4/03(46), 7/03(22), 7/03(41), 7/03(55), 8/03(53), 9/03(7), 10/03(67), 10/03(75), 1/04(25), 8/04(63, 69); 11/04 (41), 9/05(46), 12/05(41), 1/06 (37), 8/06(25); 10/06(53); 3/08(32); 8/08(33); 11/08(30); 1/09(20); 8/09(28); 9/09(15)

Aggregation: 4/09(39); 6/09(30)

Attorneys Fees: 4/07(37); 8/09(26)

Bar Review: 10/06(53)

Books: 12/09(36)

Book Reviews: 8/06(25)

Building Codes: 7/02(47)

Cached websites: 1/06 (37)

CARP: 11/03(53)

CD-ROM: 12/03(7); 3/05(35) ; 6/07(31); 7/08(27)

Collective work: 7/08(27)

Compilation: 4/03(41); 6/07(31); 11/07(18)

Contract: 7/00(35), 12/02(41), 11/03(31); 9/07(35)

Damages

Actual: 10/03(75)

Profit: 10/03(75)

Statutory: 7/07(37)

De Minimus Use: 1/04(25); 7/08(29)

Digital Millennium Copyright Act: 12/01(53), 1/02(40), 5/02(24), 2/04(31); 12/04(42); 1/05(43, 47)

DVR: 8/08(35)

Ebooks: 8/01(37)

Editing movies for offensive content: 8/06(29)

Electronic Archives: 4/01(43), 7/01(7)(9), 10/01(33), 3/03(6)

Equitable Estoppel: 6/05 (71)

Exclusive Right: 11/03(31)

Fair Use: 12/96 (13), 5/97 (15), 10/97 (27), 5/99(35), 11/99(25), 1/00(30), 2/00(41), 11/00(28), 12/00(23), 1/01(31), 3/01(25), 5/01(9), 9/01(30), 10/01(7), 11/01(3), 3/02(23), 6/02(42), 10/02(47), 4/03(43), 4/03(46), 9/03(46), 11/03(51), 12/03(37), 12/05(41), 1/06 (35), 8/06(31); 2/08(31); 7/08(29); 1/09(21); 7/09(3); 8/09(30)

Digital databases: 5/09(41); 6/09(33)

Parody: 4/03(46); 6/07(19)

Newsgathering:

Reused in broadcast: 7/07(39)

Transformative: 6/07(19); 6/08(35); 8/09(33); 9/09(10)

Family Entertainment and Copyright Act: 5/05 (53)

Fantasy Sports: 8/06(33)

File sharing: 12/04(41); 6/05 (7), 12/05(41)

Filtering Requirements under Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA): 6/02(49)

Hot News Misappropriation: 2/09(29)

International

India: 8/03(53)

France: 9/09(36); 1/10(43)

U.K.: 1/10(44)

Internet: 11/95 (8), 12/95 (1), 6/97 (18)1/99(31), 7/99(31), 10/99(47), 11/99(25), 4/00(18), 10/00(37), 11/00(24), 3/02(23), 2/03(23), 7/03(55), 9/03(7), 9/03(41), 9/03(46), 10/03(67), 3/06(51); 4/07(37); 5/07(30); 1/09(18)

Joint Author: 12/07(39)

Legal fees: 4/03(43)

Licensing fees: 4/03(43)

Movie idea: 3/08(34); 2/09(30); 5/09(43); 7/09(37)

Overseas infringement: 9/03(41)

P2P Service: 7/03(55); 12/04(41); 6/05 (7)

Photograph Archives: 11/04 (41)

Photographs

reprinted in newspaper: 8/06(25); 7/07(37)

reused in broadcast: 7/07(39)

reprinted online: 2/08(29); 11/09(31)

Public Domain: 7/98(41), 11/99(23), 6/03(71)

Public Records: 8/00(31), 9/01(41), 4/02(47)

Registration Requirement (Section 411): 10/09(12)

RIAA: 9/03(7)

Sampling: 6/05 (67)

Search engines: 3/06(51); 7/07(40)

Search Warrants (for e-mails and IP addresses): 6/02(47)

Sonny Bono Act: 12/98(27), 1/99(32), 1/03(13)

Substantial Similarity: 1/03(10), 2/03(31); 8/05 (20, 23) 9/05 (46); 9/07(37); 9/09(38)

Television show idea: 7/08(28)

Termination of rights: 4/08(47)

Thumbnail images: 3/06(51); 5/07(30)

Unregistered: 12/07(25)

Uruguay Round Agreement Act: 9/07(33)

Websites: 1/06 (37); 4/07(37); 7/07(40)

Credit Ratings: 9/09(29)

Crime Victim Information Cards: 4/00(12)

Criminal Libel: see Libel

Criminal Trials: 3/02(29), 11/02(12)

Critical Infrastructure: 12/01(42)

Cyberspace: 5/94 (appendix), 6/94 (4), 7/94 (3), 9/94 (4), 11/94(1), 3/95 (1, 7), 5/95 (12), 6/95 (1), 7/95 (1), 11/95(8), 6/96 (1), 3/97 (2), 5/97(3), 7/98(25), 2/01(22), 12/02(5), 3/03(28), 7/03(51), 7/03(57), 8/03(19), 8/03(42), 9/03(45), 12/03(23)

Advertising (Pop Up Ads): 7/05 (53), 12/05(41)

Attorney Advertising: 7/07(43)

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Damages

Compensatory: 8/03(29)

Reduction of: 10/02(35), 11/07(9)

Presumed: 9/05(7)

Punitive: 5/03(18), 8/03(29), 10/03(49), 10/03(50)

Reduction of: 5/99(33), 5/03(11), 10/03(49)

Review of: 6/01(13), 2/02(5), 10/02(35)

Standard for determining: 11/00(24), 5/03(11), 10/03(39); 1/10(30)

For non-reputational torts: 10/99(1,3), 1/00(13)

Data collection:

Pharmaceutical marketing: 12/08(24)

Data Privacy: 4/00(31), 5/00(41), 7/00(23), 8/00(34)

Sweden: 8/01(44)

Death Penalty:

Motions to compel testimony from reporters regarding: 5/07(44)

Deceptive Trade Practices: 3/97 (13), 4/97 (5)

Default Judgment

Vacated: 4/02(24)

Abuse of discretion: 5/07(20)

Department of Defense

Website Restored: 10/03(12)

Disc jockey: 6/03(40)

Discovery:

Documents Relating to Investigation by Libel Plaintiff: 8/02(23)

Electronic: 10/05(56), 4/06(53)

Docudramas: 3/00(19)

Documentary: 2/07(17)

Prior restraint: 5/07(41)

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Eavesdropping: 5/94 (2), 10/94 (2), 12/94 (1, appendix), 1/95 (1), 6/95 (7), 7/95 (7), 10/95 (7), 9/96 (11), 11/96 (14), 1/97 (1), 2/97 (1), 4/97 (15), 7/97 (21), 8/97 (21), 10/97 (22), 4/98 (23), 5/98 (21), 8/98(5), 12/00(25), 8/01(3), 1/02(21), 9/03(9); 12/07(18)

All-party consent: 2/00(9)

Elections

Political advertisements: 7/03(53), 9/05(15); 10/07(44); 8/09(12)

Campaign Coverage: 8/00(45), 8/01(34)

Campaign Finance Reform: 1/04(47), 9/05(49), 10/05(15), 7/06(22); 10/07(42)

Endorsement statutes: 11/08(39)

Exit polling: 11/08(34)

FEC records: 7//03(35)

Opinion polls: 7/98(31)

Projections, Erroneous: 4/01(45)

Electronic Communications Privacy Act: 1/97 (1), 2/97 (1)

Economic Espionage Act: 4/97 (2)

Editorial disputes: 5/03(58)

Emotional Distress: 1/97 (1), 3/99(19); 3/08(26)

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress: 2/95 (10), 3/96 (1), 8/96 (10), 1/97 (1, 5), 2/97 (1), 4/97 (15), 5/97 (13), 12/97 (12), 6/98(16), 7/98(19), 9/00(2), 7/02(15), 9/02(15), 10/02(19), 10/02(31), 2/03(9), 2/03(11), 2/03(12), 3/03(9), 4/03(27), 5/03(21), 5/03(27), 5/03(29), 7/03(13), 8/03(23), 8/03(37), 10/03(37), 10/03(81); 2/05(49), 1/06 (5, 9, 20), 2/06(11), 7/06(12); 11/07(8); 4/08(15); 4/08(20)

Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress: 10/95 (18), 1/97 (5), 2/97 (1), 4/97 (15), 5/03(29), 7/03(27), 3/06(16); 3/07(3); 7/08(21)

Employment

Employees v. Independent Contractors legislation: 1/09(30)

Intra-corporate communications: 4/03(35)

Libel: 9/06(34); 4/07(26); 10/07(28)

Reference Statutes: 1/00(19)

Retaliation: 7/07(23); 7/07(42)

Testers: 12/98(12)

Espionage Act: 3/06(9), 8/06(3)

Ethics

ABA Model Rules adaptation in New York: 2/09(52)

Advertising: 1/07(37); 11/07(38); 12/07(49); 10/08(48)

Attorney-Client Privilege: 4/08(52); 5/08(43); 10/09(40)

“Civility” Rules: 9/07 (41)

Chat Rooms: 3/05(55)

Client conflicts: 7/03(65)

Committee of Concerned Journalists: 11/97 (35)

Communication between inside and outside counsel: 12/06(44)

Compendium of Ethics articles: 7/08(39)

Confidentiality (LDRC Ethics Committee Report): 6/02(63)

Confidentiality: 9/03(51)

Conflicts of Interest: 3/06(61); 4/08(52); 6/08(39); 1/09(34)

LDRC Ethics Committee Report: 8/02(59)

Imputed Conflicts: 9/06(41); 10/06(63)

Screening: 10/06(63

Lateral Hiring: 10/06(63)

Waiver Letters: 7/06(35)

Cooperation with the Media: 6/07(45)

Corporate representation: 4/03(68)

Document Retention (Arthur Andersen): 1/05(55)

Electronic Discovery: 10/04(57)

Ethics Corner: 11/02(51), 1/03(51), 2/03(55), 4/03(68), 7/03(65), 8/03(65), 9/03(51), 10/03(83), 11/03(66), 1/04(53), 4/04(57), 5/04(57), 6/04(49), 7/04(70); 10/04 (57); 11/04(61); 3/05(55); 11/07(38); 12/07(49); 2/08(37); 3/08(49); 5/08(43); 6/08(39); 10/09(40); 11/09(38); 1/10(47); 2/10(38)

Ethics Library: 5/06(47)

Failure to research: 7/03(65)

Federal Rule of Evidence 502: 12/08(42)

Fee awards: 1/03(51)

Future Conflict Waivers: 1/06 (55)

Libel Conference Footnotes: 10/02(56)

Government Investigations and ‘Selective Waiver’ of Privilege: 11/03(66)

Government Lawyers: 11/05(63)

Hiring: 10/06(63)

Inadvertent Disclosure of Confidential Materials: 4/06(57)

Interviews (LDRC Ethics Committee Report): 7/02(63)

Joint Defense: 9/08(43)

Journalism Guidelines: 9/94 (3), 11/94 (9), 7/95 (11, appendix), 11/95 (3), 8/96 (15), 10/00(36); 12/09(39)

Judges: 2/07(39); 10/07(12); 12/07(8); 11/09(11)

Legal Commentator Guidelines: 2/98 (12)

Litigation Privilege / Right to Privacy: 5/07(57)

Metadata: 2/06(47)

Model Rules: 5/09(45)

Multi-jurisdictional practice: 9/02(47)

Outsourcing: 8/08(46)

Pre-Publication Review: 8/06(42)

Privacy/Litigation Privilege: 5/07(57)

Professional Detachment: 4/07(53)

Prospective Clients: 3/07(59)

Recusal, Judges: 2/07(40)

Representing Media Outlets: 3/08(49)

Representing Multiple Clients: 8/04(71); 9/04(54), 3/06(61)

Rule 1.2(b): 4/07(53)

Settlements: 8/07(29)

Society of Professional Journalists: 10/02(14)

Solicitation of non-party employees: 6/09(36)

Standing: 11/08(40)

Terrorism: 2/08(37)

Unsolicited E-mail: 12/04(71)

European Union: 7/98(25), 8/04(51); 11/08(26); 12/08(27); 2/09(17); 7/09(27)

Experts: See Witnesses

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Failure to prosecute: 3/99(21)

Failure to produce:

Financial Documents: 9/06(27)

Fair Report Privilege: See Libel, privileges/defenses

Fair Trial Concerns: 7/02(44)

False Light: See ‘Privacy, invasion of’

FBI

Demand for Press Documents: 10/03(11)

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Rule 12: 12/10(6)

Rule 26(a) (Discovery Rule), Amendments: 9/96 (13), 10/96 (17), 8/99 (31)

Rule 26(c), Understanding of: 10/03(35)

Rule 26(c), Proposed Amendments: 12/95 (1), 3/96 (1), 4/96 (9), 6/96 (3), 10/96(17)

Rule 60(b), Motion under: 4/99(5)

Governing scope of discovery: 9/01(25)

Federal Rules of Evidence

Section 405: 7/96 (1)

Federal Communications Commission

Bona Fide News Programs: 10/03(63)

Broadcast Flags: 5/05 (51)

Broadcast licenses: 8/98(21)

Broadcast of taped conversations without consent: 4/02(23)

‘Do Not Call’ List: 10/03(69), 2/04(22), 3/04(43)

Erroneous Election Projections by Broadcasters: 4/01(45)

Fleeting Expletives policy: 6/07(28); 3/08(15); 45/09(3)

Fleeting Images policy: 7/08(3); 7/08(4)

Howard Stern: 10/03(63)

Indecency Standards: 2/02(37), 3/03(24), 5/03(55), 2/04(63), 3/04(55); 3/05(49), 3/06(45); 2/08(36); 11/08(6)

Micro-power stations: 4/99(46)

News distortion: 5/03(58)

Notices of Inquiry: 8/04(65)

Personal attack/political editorial rules: 12/98(20), 8/99 (27), 10/00(39)

Violence on Television: 5/07(54)

Federal Emergency Management Agency: 4/06(43)

Hurricane Katrina: 6/07(39)

Federal Trade Commission

“Do Not Call” Registry: 10/03(69)

Endorsement and testimonial guidelines: 2/09(44)

First Amendment Privacy Protection Act: 3/06(42)

First Amendment restrictions on Debt Relief Agencies: 6/09(32)

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: 9/02(39), 10/02(54), 11/02(43), 2/03(44), 4/03(66), 9/03(33)

Foreign Judgments, unenforceable: 10/05(43), 1/06 (43)

Forum non conveniens: 10/02(45), 3/03(27)

Freedom of Access to Clinics Act: 2/99(31)

Friedman, Robert (Obit): 7/02(70)

Frivolous Suits: 2/06(15)

Funeral: 4/07(13); 10/09(37)

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Gag Order: 11/03(41); 9/05(21)

Goodale, James: 11/07(6)

Guantanamo Bay: 10/03(12); 12/06(31)

Gross irresponsibility: 7/98(5), 5/99(3), 10/00(14), 1/01(15), 1/02(11)

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Hate Speech: 4/03(3)

Cross burning: 4/03(4), 3/04(41)

HIPAA: 6/03(51), 8/04(41); 9/04(37), (33); 6/05 (79), 3/06(33); 4/07(35); 5/08(15)

HIV Status, disclosure statutes: 3/06(29)

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Idea Submission: 12/09(34)

Idea Theft: 10/04(49)

In Remembrance

Richard Schmidt 10/04(3)

Ralph Elliot (3)

Cam DeVore: 11/08(5)

Injunctions:

Access:

Sealed / Protective Orders: 3/07(27)

Cyberspace:

Injunctions: 7/03(55)

Mass E-Mails, as Trespass to Chattels: 1/02(20), 4/02(55), 7/03(46)

Posting of Messages: 1/02(13), 4/02(16), 5/03(20), 11/03(17), 11/03(26); 7/07(28)

Posting Trade Secrets: 9/03(38)

Lanham Act:

Injunctions: 6/00(29), 8/02(15), 8/03(69), 9/03(45)

Denied: 10/03(74), 11/03(49)

Libel:

Injunctions: 11/97 (20), 3/02(5, 26), 11/02(25), 4/03(10), 5/03(20), 5/03(22); 10/04(9, 11); 3/05(5); 6/05 (11)

Post-trial injunction: 5/07(17)

Newsgathering

Ride-Along Claims: see Newsgathering

Prior Restraint:

Post-trial injunction: 5/07(17)

Sought against Broadcast: 3/07(33)

Sought against police/ Internet posting of arrest tape: 7/07(15)

Sought against publication: 3/07(31); 7/07(27)

Sought against reporting: 3/07(29)

Privacy:

Injunction: 6/03(33), 7/03(41)

Insurance

Duty to defend against defamation suits: 10/02(43)

Freelance writers: 5/99(12), 12/02(41)

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress: 9/06(23); 2/07(7); 7/07(17)

Intentional Interference with Contract: 1/05(21)

Interlocutory appeal: 10/98(13), 11/98(21), 7/99(25), 10/99(42), 6/01(29)(31); 6/08(8)

Internet: see Cyberspace

Intrusion

Injunctions on Newsgathering

Ride-Along Claims: see Newsgathering

Iraq: 6/03(58), 7/03(32), 8/03(51), 9/03(18), 9/03(35), 12/03(5), 1/04(51)

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Journalists (Reporters)

Arrested: 3/02(31), 5/02(25, 32), 6/03(41), 7/03(29)

Asylum: 4/03(72)

Confiscated materials: 3/02(31), 3/03(5), 5/03(13), 8/03(43), 9/03(13), 9/03(14)

Contempt Charges: 2/02(33), 5/02(27), 6/02(51), 8/02(55), 1/03(31); 10/07(7)

Anastasia, George: 6/02(51)

Gambardello, Joseph: 6/02(51)

Lounsberry, Emilie: 6/02(51)

Ott, Dwight: 6/02(51)

Saline, Carol: 2/02(33)

In Iraq: 9/03(18)

In Jail: 8/01(7), 9/01(6), 10/01(32), 11/01(17), 12/01(46)

Killed: 4/03(65), 5/03(52), 7/03(32), 8/03(52), 8/03(61)

Daniel Pearl: 2/02(3)

Missing: 6/03(59)

Notes: 5/03(54)

Prosecutions: 6/03(37)

Subpoenaed: see Subpoenas

Threatened: 2/02(35), 3/02(31), 4/03(72), 9/03(13)

Judges:

Defamation claims: 4/07(11); 12/06(3); 5/07(3); 10/07(12); 10/07(14)

Judicial Campaigns: 9/05(49)

Judicial Conference: 9/01(31, 32), 4/02(33), 5/02(26)

Jurisdiction: 9/96 (1), 10/96 (1)

Cases applying Calder v. Jones: 11/01(23), 1/03(15)

Cyberspace, see Cyberspace, Jurisdiction

Federal Jurisdiction: 8/02(34), 11/02(25), 10/03(23)

Foreign Defendant: 2/04(13), 9/05(5)

Forum Shopping: 6/94 (appendix), 5/95 (4), 6/95 (9), 1/96 (12), 3/96 (8), 3/97 (13), 7/98(27), 6/99(13), 8/99 (19), 6/00(18), 9/02(17); 12/09(22)

Individual v. Publishing Co.: 3/00(11)

Long-arm statutes: 4/00(13), 2/01(5), 12/01(24), 9/02(9), 3/03(26), 6/03(19); 12/07(24)

Minimum contacts: 7/03(12), 3/06(25)

Personal: 9/96 (1), 10/96 (1), 2/97 (17), 3/97 (3), 4/97 (10), 5/97 (8, 9), 8/97 (5), 3/98 (11), 11/01(23), 4/02(10), 9/02(7), 9/02(9), 10/02(41), 3/03(33), 7/03(12), 7/03(58), 8/03(19), 2/04(13), 10/05(39), 4/06(11); 1/08(17); 6/08(21)

Purposeful Availment: 2/03(23), 6/03(19), 7/06(27)

Specific: 8/98(15), 4/00(9), 9/02(9), 6/03(19)

Subject matter: 11/02(25)

Tribal Courts: 6/98(17)

Justice Department, U.S.

Guidelines for compelled disclosure: 9/01(4), 10/01(45)

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Knight Foundation:

Survey on Students’ First Amendment Attitudes: 2/05(54)

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Lamo, Adrian: 10/03(11)

Lanham Act: 12/94 (8), 4/95 (1), 8/95 (1), 9/95 (2), 5/97 (16), 9/97 (6), 11/97 (29), 2/98 (23), 3/99(49), 6/99(35)(41), 7/99(41), 2/00(7), 10/00(19), 12/00(23), 3/01(17), 6/01(35), 10/01(35), 12/01(15), 2/02(21), 5/02(3), 8/02(7), 8/02(15), 2/03(30), 5/03(31), 5/03(35), 5/03(37), 6/03(71), 7/03(9), 8/03(13), 9/03(45), 10/03(74), 11/03(49), 12/03(36); 7/05 (53) ; 9/09(10); 10/09(29)

Injunctions: 6/00(29), 8/02(15), 8/03(69), 9/03(45)

Denied: 10/03(74), 11/03(49)

Law Enforcement, Right to Sue: 10/03(57)

“Leaks” Panel: 1/02(35)

Leggett, Vanessa: see Reporters’ Privilege

Legislative Update: 11/03(63), 12/03(61), 2/04(61), 3/04(53), 4/04(53), 6/04(43), 7/04(65), 8/04(67); 9/04(51); 10/04(55); 12/04(69); 1/05(53); 2/05(55); 3/05(51)

Libel

42 U.S.C. ' 1985 claim as a libel claim: 11/01(33)

Actual Malice versus Libel-by-Implication: 6/02(29), 2/04(7), 3/04(4), 8/04(38); 12/04(13)

Advertisement: 9/06(15)

Anonymous Plaintiffs: 12/94 (14), 1/95 (1), 3/96 (13), 10/02(55)

Anonymous Ratings: 9/04(17)

Anti-SLAPP Statutes: see Anti-SLAPP Statutes

Appellate Review Standard: 5/94 (4), 6/95 (1), 11/96 (7), 12/96 (7)

Arbitration Agreement (within scope of): 9/04(25)

Bank Libel Laws: 8/95 (7), 2/00(39)

Books: 4/07(23), 8/07(15); 9/08(8); 11/09(6); 2/10(15)

Cartoons: 10/98(19); 5/07(21)

Causation Requirement: 10/97 (15)

Failure to state a claim: 5/07(23)

Choice of Law: 4/96 (11), 9/99(21), 9/01(27), 9/02(17); 1/05(27)

Columnists:

Sports: 9/06(21)

Local news: 12/06(3)

Political columnist: 4/07(15)

Communism accusations: 4/09(11)

Confidential Sources (in libel suits): 5/06(23); 12/06(3)

Conspiracy to defame: 9/06(31)

Correction Statutes

California: 3/99(19)

Uniform Correction or Clarification Act: 4/94 (2), 12/94 (9, appendix), 2/95 (7), 4/95 (1), 9/95(5), 6/96 (2),4/98 (17)\

Kentucky: 10/05(35)

Class actions: 6/03(29)

Criminal Libel: 5/96 (9), 7/96 (2), 9/96 (9), 1/97(11), 5/97 (1), 6/97 (9), 8/97 (19), 4/98 (15), 10/98(25), 7/00(7), 7/00(8), 9/00(5), 12/00(10), 3/01(5), 12/01(27, 28), 8/02(5), 9/02(23), 11/02(45), 12/02(13), 12/02(14), 1/03(17), 1/03(13), 2/03(15), 2/03(17), 3/03(3), 6/03(11), 12/03(31), 1/04(43), 8/04(25, 27); 9/04(24); 11/04 (31, 32); 12/04(62) ; 4/05(24); 5/05 (21, 23); 8/05 (34, 35, 36), 9/05(15), 10/05(40), 11/05(47), 12/05(19), 1/06 (23), 4/06(46), 4/06(47), 7/06(14), 8/06(24); 4/07(31); 4/07(33); 4/08(36); 5/08(35); 6/08(23)

Civil Suits against prosecutors: 12/05(19)

Internet: 2/09(37)

Damages: 8/98(10), 9/98(9), 10/98(16), 11/98(9)(11), 2/99(16), 8/99 (1), 2/00(1), 4/00(12), 10/00(8, 9), 4/01(17), 9/02(11), 12/02(15), 12/02(23), 8/03(29), 3/04(4); 12/04(19)

Compensatory: 4/07(15); 1/09(5)

Paid: 6/07(4)

Presumed: 9/00(6), 9/05(7)

Proof of: 5/00(13), 12/02(21)

Punitive: 12/04(19), 12/05(12); 4/07(15)

Remittitur: 12/03(16)

Special: 12/02(23), 5/03(30), 8/03(34)

Vacated: 6/07(4)

Dead, Libel of: 4/00(23)

Death, of party: 4/05(25); 6/07(4)

Defamatory Meaning: 3/95 (3), 3/96 (5), 9/96 (8), 1/97 (5), 2/97 (9), 6/97 (10), 3/98 (7), 11/98(7), 8/99 (11), 10/99 (20), 2/00 (21), 6/00(9), 8/00 (23), 9/00(2), 11/00(7), 12/00(9), 1/01(9), 1/01(15), 2/01(12), 4/01(14), 6/01(31), 7/01(31)(33)(35), 8/01(29), 9/01(27), 11/01(27), 12/01(29), 3/02(11), 4/02(19), 6/02(35), 7/02(4, 16), 9/02(11), 9/02(16), 9/02(17), 10/02(27), 11/02(19), 12/02(14), 4/03(11), 4/03(20), 5/03(23), 6/03(31), 7/03(18), 8/03(29), 8/03(34), 10/03(42), 11/03(26), 1/04(15, 24), 2/04(17), 3/04(7), 1/06 (20), 1/06 (28); 9/06(9), 9/07(15); 1/08(16); 5/08(16); 6/08(19); 7/09(13); 12/09(19)

Context: 2/99(12), 9/00(20), 11/01(25), 6/02(23), 9/02(16), 9/02(17), 10/02(27), 11/02(19), 12/02(14), 7/03(18); 9/06(9); 10/06(23); 10/06(29); 8/09(23)

Defamation per se: 10/09(31)

Fictional Character: 2/07(15)

Homosexuality: 8/09(13)

“Unchastity of a Woman”: 10/06(31)

Headlines: 1/99(5), 11/00(13), 3/01(4), 3/02(15), 4/02(15)

Hyperbole: 10/06(23); 10/06(33)

Implications/Innuendo: 5/95(1, appendix), 11/95 (1), 12/95 (1), 6/96 (1), 8/96 (5), 3/97 (5), 4/97 (13), 7/97 (13), 8/97 (5), 9/97 (11), 6/98 (9),(16), 8/98(13), 10/98(13), 11/98(5)(7), 1/99(5), 4/99(16), 7/99(29), 3/00(8), 8/00(19), 9/00(28), 10/00(2), 11/00(6), 12/00(13, 18), 2/01(13), 5/01(28, 30), 7/01(36), 10/01(23), 12/01(19), 2/02(19), 4/02(14), 12/02(24), 4/03(15), 4/03(17), 7/03(19), 10/03(42), 11/03(7), 11/03(19), 1/04(15), 1/05(30); 6/05 (47, 49); 8/05 (11), 10/05(24), 1/06 (5, 7); 9/06(20); 3/07(23); 10/07(21); 5/08(18); 8/08(18); 10/09(19); 11/09(9); 11/09(17); 1/10(28)

Iowa: 3/07(23)

Libel-by-Implications versus Actual Malice: 6/02(29)

Innocent Construction: 2/00(27), 10/00(3), 8/03(27), 3/04(21); 10/09(33)

Multiple Meanings of words: 7/07(19)

Not capable of Defamatory Meaning: 9/09(31); 12/07(23)

Omission: 5/00(1), 603(23)

Photographs: 10/96 (9), 6/98 (7), 10/98(18), 11/98(18), 9/00(15), 3/01(3), 7/01(25), 8/01(25), 9/01(17), 10/01(9), 2/02(14), 5/02(18), 6/02(21), 11/02(19)

Pleading standards 8/09(3, 7); 10/09(31)

Specific Names/Phrases:

“FBI Informer”: 9/06(19)

Targeted Audience: 10/03(42)

Twitter: 2/10(26)

Translations: 11/00(12)

Vocal inflection: 11/98(5)

Default: 3/05(34), 10/05(19), 11/05(16); 4/08(23)

Directed Verdict: 9/06(13); 2/09(7)

Disclaimer: 2/06(17)

Discovery: 7/07(29)

Dismissal: 9/06(21); 9/06(27); 10/06(29)

Lack of Personal Jurisdiction: 9/06(25)

Failure to State a Claim: 9/06(25)

Dummy Copy: 6/96 (9)

Editorials: 12/04(10); 5/07(21); 6/07(6) See also: Libel-Privileges/Defenses-Opinion

Failure to state a claim: 5/07(23)

Fair Index Rule: 4/03(25)

Fake report: 12/98(29), 11/00(17); 2/08(10)

Fault: 2/06(18); 7/09(18)

Falsity: 2/97 (12), 4/97 (28), 3/99(52), 10/99(17), 10/99(27), 4/00(8), 10/00(8), 11/00(15),12/00(10), 1/01(7), 6/02(27), 7/02(5), 9/02(17), 12/02(27), 3/03(11), 6/03(15), 6/03(23); 12/04(9); 1/05(29); 4/05(17); 9/06(19); 9/06(27); 10/06(23); 2/07(7); 6/07(6); 3/08(27); 3/08(28); 8/08(13); 5/09(28)

Burden of Proof: 8/95 (2), 9/96 (11)

Fictional character: 11/98(23), 10/03(51), 12/03(39); 2/05(29); 4/05(7); 2/08(8); 4/08(13)

Book character: 11/09(6)

Movie character: 2/07(11); 2/07(15)

Television show character: 3/08(25)

Foreign Libel Law

Argentina: 5/08(36)

Australia: 10/94 (7), 2/95 (13), 9/01(48), 12/02(5), 5/03(9); 10/04(36, 40);

9/05(40), 12/05(35)

Austria: 1/98 (12)

Canada: 12/94 (1), 2/95 (14), 8/95 (1), 9/96 (3), 10/97 (24), 1/98 (16), 4/98 (15, 21) , 7/98(31), 3/00(46), 9/01(48), 12/02(29), 6/03(27), 6/03(29), 7/03(59), 11/03(17), 2/04(36, 37, 40), 8/04(54); 3/05(47); 8/05 (37), 9/05(5), 12/05(31, 34); 11/07(27); 7/08(23); 12/08(31)

Reynolds/Jameel defense: 11/07(24)

Responsible journalism defense: 12/08(31); 12/09(29); 2/10(35)

Council Of Europe

Convention On Cyber-crime

Hate Speech: 11/01(38), 7/02(58)

Right of reply: 7/03(63), 2/04(41)

Criminal Libel: 10/06(49)

Denmark: 3/08(37)

Egypt: 8/97 (18)

Enforcement of Judgments in US: 11/97 (1), 7/01(47), 11/01(37), 5/03(3)

European Court of Human Rights (ECHR): 7/05 (47), 2/06(34); 10/06(49); 11/07(30); 12/07(35); 3/08(39);

European Union: 2/03(26), 2/04(43); 11/04 (53); 7/05 (49)

France: 10/97 (25), 11/97 (32), 12/00(31), 11/01(37), 9/02(23), 1/04(29), 4/06(41); 11/07(31); 9/09(36)

Germany: 2/03(26); 3/08(37)

Hague Convention: 7/01(47)

India: 2/95 (13)

Indonesia: 6/00(21) 10/07(35); 4/09(28)

Ireland: 8/97 (18), 11/99(31), 8/03(53), 7/06(28); 3/07(37); 7/09(32)

Israel: 11/97 (32)

Italy: 9/09(36)

Kenya: 8/97 (18)

Latin America: 10/04(41)

Malaysia: 10/97 (24), 9/01(48)

Mexico: 10/97 (24)

The Netherlands: 2/08(23)

New Zealand: 11/07(31)

Protection against foreign libel law: 5/08(3); 5/08(4); 11/08(20)

Romania: 11/01(41, 42)

Serbia: 8/97 (18)

Singapore: 8/97 (18), 10/97 (24), 11/97 (32)

South Africa: 11/98(40)

Sri Lanka: 8/97 (18)

Switzerland: 6/02(64)

Taiwan: 5/97 (1), 8/97 (18)

United Kingdom: 6/94 (3), 11/94 (4), 2/95 (1), 7/95 (4), 8/97 (18), 10/97 (25), 11/97 (31), 12/97 (1, 4, 5, 6), 5/98 (29,37,39, 40), 7/98(26, 29), 8/98(11), 10/98(28), 11/98(35, 36, 37, 39, 40), 12/98(29), 3/99(43), 5/99(40), 6/99(16), 6/99(33), 1/00(29), 4/00(52,53,57), 10/00(43, 45), 1/01(23), 3/01(26), 8/01(41), 9/01(48), 11/01(39), 11/02(9), 12/02(16), 3/03(27), 8/03(57), 12/03(33), 1/04(27), 2/04(39, 41), 3/04(37, 39); 10/04(35, 36, 37); 11/04 (49, 51); 12/04(47); 1/05(41, 42); 2/05(35, 39, 42), 10/05(45), 12/05(37), 1/06 (47), 6/06(31), 8/06(39); 10/06(13); 3/07(39); 10/07(40); 11/07(28); 12/07(34); 12/07(37); 3/08(38); 6/08(30); 2/09(22); 4/09(30); 7/09(25); 9/09(33); 11/09(32)

Conditional Fee Agreements: 12/07(35); 8/08(28)

Cyberspace: 4/01(23), 12/02(16); 10/04(35); 11/04 (49), 9/05(5), 6/06(31); 10/07(39)

Forum non conveniens 5/00(47)

Qualified Privilege: 11/99(27), 3/00(45), 6/01(45), 12/01(33), 1/02(15), 1/03(21)

Data Protection Act: 10/02(25); 10/07(41); 12/07(38)

Internet Libel: 8/08(29)

Legal Costs: 12/05(37); 1/10(40)

Multiple Publication Rule: 9/09(33)

Neutral Reportage: 1/05(41) 7/07(40)

N. Ireland: 3/08(36)

Qualified Privilege: 1/05(41, 42); 10/07(37)

Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006: 10/07(40)

Regulation of Investigative Powers Act: 10/07(40)

Reynolds Defense: 8/05 (37); 10/07(37); 10/07(39); 12/07(34)

Jameel: 10/06(13); 12/07(34)

The Reasonable Journalist Standard: 7/02(57)

United Nations: 12/05(39); 8/08(28)

United States, Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in: 11/97 (1), 7/01(47), 11/01(37), 11/02(9), 1/03(5), 5/03(3); 2/05(24, 42); 6/05 (59); 5/09(29)

Zimbabwe: 6/02(66)

Freezing of Assets (prejudgment remedy): 3/05(27)

Frivolous Suits: 2/06(15)

Group: 10/97 (10), 5/99(11), 6/03(29)

Headlines: 7/05 (31), 10/05(37)

HIV-Disclosure: 9/04(33)

Hyperbole: 9/06(21); 9/06(23); 4/09(25)

Implication, Libel By: See Defamatory Meaning –Implication/Innuendo

Injunctions: 11/97 (20), 3/02(5, 26), 11/02(25), 4/03(10), 5/03(20), 5/03(22); 10/04(9, 11); 3/05(5); 6/05 (11); 5/08(14)

Post-trial injunction: 5/07(17)

Injury: 4/03(27)

Innocent construction Rule: 12/06(7); 2/07(16); 9/08(6)

Internet: 4/09(12); 4/09(14); 5/09(16); 6/09(13)

Intracorporate communications: 2/05(27)

Isolated Statements: 12/04(37)

JNOV: 8/04(37); 12/04(10) ; 9/09(23)

Judge as Plaintiff: 12/06(3); 4/07(11); 5/07(3); 10/07(12); 10/07(14)

Sidebar: Libel Trials with Judges as Plaintiffs: 5/07(6)

Newspaper denied impartial forum: 6/07(3)

Judge Recused: 12/03(18)

Ethical Considerations: 2/07(39)

Michigan: 2/07(39)

Judgment: 4/09(8)

Unenforceable: 4/07(18)

Judicial candidate: 4/08(24)

Jurisdiction: 9/06(24); 1/09(11)

International: 6/07(11)

Lack of personal: 4/07(17); 4/08(33)

Lack of subject matter:

Amount in controversy: 4/07(18)

Long Arm: 6/07(11); 6/07(12)

Websites: 6/07(12)

Jury Instruction: 10/06(19), 8/09(28)

Jury Verdicts: 5/00(5), 6/00(1), 7/00(9), 1/02(13), 12/02(15), 3/03(15), 6/(03(7), 6/03(9), 6/03(12), 7/03(19), 8/03(17), 11/03(12), 12/03(19); 12/04(9, 10); 10/06(19)[BTK]; 10/06(42); 12/06(3); 12/06(20); 10/09(23)

Ruling for Plaintiff: 4/07(9); 4/07(15); 4/08(22); 7/08(8)

Retrial: 4/07(9)

Award reduced on appeal: 4/07(11)

Juxtaposition (by): 3/05(23)

Letters to the Editor: 9/01(19), 10/01(13), 3/03 (13); 5/05 (17); 7/05 (55); 3/07(20)

Libel proof plaintiffs: See Libel-Privileges/Defenses

Libel terrorism/tourism: 11/08(21); 2/09(15); 5/09(30); 5/09(31)

Loathsome Disease Standard: 5/97 (4)

Loss of Reputation, Evidence of: 7/96 (1), 11/96 (7), 7/97 (15), 12/97 (9), 11/98(9), 2/00(23), 9/02(13), 5/03(13), 6/03(9), 6/03(43)

Media v. Media: 7/00(4)

Misquotation: 6/07(6)

Mistake: 4/03(27), 10/05(21); 2/08(19)

Non-Media Defendants: 10/06(41); 9/08(18)

Negative Campaigning: 4/96 (13), 8/99 (13), 11/99(9), 2/00(29), 4/00(12)

Negligence of Publisher: 9/08(3)

Of and Concerning: 2/96 (11), 12/97 (9), 1/98 (3), 3/99(17)(19),12/00(11, 23), 1/01(2), 9/01(27), 10/01(19), 12/01(31), 9/02(13), 3/03(21), 4/03(31), 5/03(23), 7/03(23), 8/04(26, 39); 11/04 (29); 3/05(17), 12/05(18), 1/06 (17) , 6/06(27); 3/07(21); 4/09(23); 12/09(24)

"Small Group Theory": 1/02(11), 5/02(17); 11/09(21)

Omission, by: 3/05(16)

Peer Review: 9/08(23)

Per Se/Per Quod: 3/95 (2), 1/96 (11), 2/96 (2), 11/98(5)(11), 7/99(21), 4/00(20), 12/00(9), 4/01(13, 16), 7/01(30), 10/01(19), 11/01(35), 12/02(23), 1/03(28), 5/03(30), 6/03(25), 11/05(33), 1/06 (27); 1/08(19); 11/09(17)

“Unchastity of a woman”: 10/06(31)

Photo Misidentification: 12/05(22), 6/06(29)

Pleadings (given to reporter): 11/04 (21)

Political Advertisements: 8/07(17); 8/09(12)

Preemption by labor law: 6/06(36)

Prima Facie Case: 2/06(18); 8/08(16); 12/09(15)

Private Figure Plaintiffs: 5/95 (5), 12/97(9), 7/98(5), 11/98(7), 4/99(12), 7/99(11), 10/00(2), 12/00(7), 1/01(11), 4/01(3), 6/01(25, 34), 7/01(15), 10/01(23), 5/02(9, 13), 5/03(15), 5/03(35), 7/03(13), 7/03(65), 8/03(39), 11/03(09), 11/03(13); 12/04(9); 2/05(21); 4/05(19); 7/05 (45), 11/05(15) , 11/05(24), 3/06(13), 3/06(16), 5/06(27); 9/06(13); 10/06(33); 10/06(41), 8/07(9), 8/07(16); 10/07(17); 12/07(16); 1/08(11); 1/08(14); 3/08(30); 4/08(17); 7/08(8); 4/09(10); 6/09(11)

Authors as: 5/06(27)

Corporations as: 5/00(21), 5/03(23)

College basketball coach as: 7/09(20)

Determination remanded on appeal: 9/06(7)

District Attorneys as: 9/06 (7)

Professors as: 11/05 (24)

Turning self into public figure:

via Advertisement: 10/06 (34)

Privileges/Defenses

Actual Malice: 9/98 (11), 10/98 (11) (27), 11/98(1), 1/99(1), 9/99(19), 10/99(11,17), 10/99 (26), 2/00 (11), 5/00(19), 9/00(9), 10/00 (8, 9, 14, 24), 11/00(18), 12/00(18, 9), 1/01(2, 4, 5, 9, 15), 2/01(3), 3/01(17, 23), 5/01(26, 27, 34), 6/01(28), 10/01(31), 2/02(5), 5/02(7, 13), 7/02(3), 9/02(28), 10/02(31), 10/02(41), 11/02(15), 11/02(31), 12/02(15), 12/02(19), 12/02(27), 2/03(13), 3/03(11), 4/03(13), 5/03(21), 6/03(9), 7/03(17), 7/03(20), 8/03(22), 10/03(43), 10/03(45), 10/03(59), 3/04(15), 8/04(13, 36); 9/04(27); 11/04 (23); 1/05(17, 19, 26); 3/05(13); 4/05(22, 23); 6/05 (23, 39); 7/05 (23); 8/05 (7, 15), 1/06 (25), 3/06(23), 4/06(15), 4/06(17), 6/06(18); 10/06(29); 3/07(21); 10/07(24); 11/07(12); 11/07(13); 3/08(27); 6/08(5); 7/08(5); 7/08(11); 7/08(17), 8/08(6); 9/08(21); 1/09(10); 2/09(12); 5/09(13); 7/09(15); 8/09(13); 1/10(24)

Better Business Bureau: 11/03(23)

Bond ratings, applied to: 4/99(7)

Breach of contract, applied to: 4/99(7), 10/00(25), 8/07(11)

Burden of Proof: 3/95 (1), 4/97 (28), 11/02(15), 12/02(19), 2/03(13), 7/03(17), 8/03(17), 10/03(45)

Content, applied to: 5/00(15), 6/01(23)

Summary Judgment, on motion for: 6/97 (13), 7/97 (9), 9/99(5), 11/00(3), 1/01(9), 4/01(10), 9/02(20), 6/03(15), 6/03(23), 8/03(29), 10/03(59), 11/03(21); 6/07(6); 1/10(24)

Defense has burden: 7/07(11)

Character: 3/03(15)

Consumer Fraud: 5/95 (1), 1/96 (6)

Criminal Libel: 12/00(10); 11/04 (31)

Discovery, Scope of: 5/97 (4), 9/01(23, 25)

Confidential Sources: 5/06(23)

Corrections: 7/07(19)

Destruction of notes: 7/08(13)

Duty to Investigate: 6/96 (1), 11/99(9), 12/99(12), 1/00(26), 5/00(9), 5/00(39), 7/00(3), 3/01(8), 7/01(29), 8/01(24, 29), 9/01(10, 13), 4/03(13), 6/03(9), 9/09(17)

Editorial choice: 10/98(11); 7/08(11)

Errors, not evidence of: 2/99(5), 8/00(25), 10/00(8), 2/02(24); 1/05(27)

Emotional Distress, applied to: 1/97 (5)

Expert Testimony: 7/08(11); 8/09(28)

Fictional Setting: 2/05(29)

Financial Motives: 6/00(7)

Ill will, as evidence of: 2/99(7), 5/00(9)

Independent Appellate Review for evidence of: 2/02(5), 7/02(5), 6/03(15)

Innocent Dissemination: 7/98(29)

Instructions (Reckless Disregard): 2/02(14)

Issues of Public Concern, applied to: 9/00(6, 14), 2/02(24)

Joke: 1/05(11)

Judicial Action: 1/04(13)

Jurisdiction: 8/04 (31); 2/05(30), 3/06(25)

Lack of Actual Malice: 4/07(19); 4/09(23)

Mistaken Identity: 3/00(9), 8/01(27)

Pennsylvania: 7/07(11)

Prima Facie case: 5/97 (5)

Recollection, reporting based on: 4/07(23); 6/07(6)

Reexamination of Standard: 6/96 (8)

Refusal to identify sources as evidence of: 10/98(7); 2/05(23)

Repeated errors as evidence of: 11/98(6), 9/02(28)

Restatement (lawyers): 6/98(15)

Retrial with new standard of: 4/07(9)

Section 230: 1/09(13); 5/09(9); 9/09(20); 1/10(25)

Trade libel, as applied to: 10/98(21), 6/02(27)

Vicarious Liability for: 9/00(9), 9/07(11)

Borrowing Statute: 9/00(12), 11/02(15)

Common Interest: 4/06(26)

Communication to the government: 3/08(30)

Communications Decency Act: 1/09(16); 11/09(25)

Congressional Immunity: 1/96 (12)

Discovery Abuse: 10/04(59); 12/04(22)

Ecclesiastical privilege: 6/03(31)

Employer’s Statements: 4/07(27)

Fair Comment: 2/00(25), 7/01(44), 7/03(14), 12/05(14), 12/05(15); 10/06(36); 2/10(18)

Canada: 7/08(23)

Fair Report Privilege: 11/95 (7), 6/96 (8), 8/96 (7), 10/96 (19), 11/96 (11), 12/96 (5, 6), 2/97 (7), 3/97 (7), 4/97 (1, 7, 8, 13), 7/97 (18), 9/97 (11), 10/97 (9), 11/97 (10), 4/98 (9), 10/98(26), 11/98(19)(20), 3/99(20), 4/99(9), 6/99(11), 7/99(14), 8/99 (17), 10/99(23), 12/99(9), 5/00(13), 8/00(26), 9/00(21), 10/00(3), 11/00(14, 18), 12/00(18), 2/01(3) (16), 3/01(8)(23), 4/01(11,16), 5/01(33), 8/01(28), 10/01(31), 12/01(15), 2/02(15), 3/02(11), 10/02(34), 11/02(21), 12/02(27), 3/03(9), 4/03(20), 5/03(15), 7/03(20), 7/03(65), 8/03(28), 10/03(39), 10/03(47), 11/03(19), 12/03(20, 23), 2/04(7, 20, 23); 10/04(16, 18, 19); 6/05 (44); 7/05 (39), 9/05(17), 10/05(41), 11/05(37), 12/05(15), 3/06(16), 3/06(17), 4/06(23), 6/06(18), 6/06(30); 10/06(36), 5/07(13), 9/07(13, 14, 24); 10/07(21); 4/08(25); 4/08(29); 9/08(26); 11/08(14); 11/08(16); 7/09(21); 8/09(12); 09/9(27); 11/09(22); 1/10(17); 2/10(18); 2/10(22)

Confer Upon Oneself: 10/03(47)

Directed Verdicts: 7/07(9)

Expunged records: 4/08(28)

International Arena: 4/97 (1), 1/03(21); 9/08(12)

Mere Pleading Rule: 10/97 (7)

Police Blotter: 7/07(9)

Police report: 6/08(22)

Reynolds privilege: 1/03(21); 3/08(38)

Familial Privilege: 8/07(16)

Fiction (work is piece of fiction): 5/03(23)

Dreams, description of: 4/07(23)

Gross Irresponsibility: 9/04(15), 3/06(17); 4/08(17)

Humor: 1/97 (5), 2/00(13); 1/05(11); 2/05(29); 2/09(10)

Hyperbole: 1/97 (9), 6/97 (9), 7/98(9), 8/98(16), 10/98(19),11/98(24), 8/99 (11), 8/99 (13), 11/99(13), 2/01(12, 14), 6/01(31), 9/01(27), 6/02(9, 20), 11/02(15), 12/02(17), 12/03(22); 1/05(13), 8/08(4)

Incremental Harm Doctrine: 7/96 (4), 10/98(17), 12/98(23), 3/99(17), 7/00(5), 3/01(9), 12/05(15); 12/07(5)

Injury (lack of): 4/03(27), 10/03(43)

Innocent Construction Rule: 11/96 (5), 7/97 (13), 9/98(3), 11/99(36), 10/02(41); 12/04(29); 6/05 (41, 51); 7/05 (17); 4/08(29); 2/09(4)

Judicial Immunity: 9/99 (21)

Judicial Proceedings: 4/07(29)

Justification: 12/02(29)

Letters to the Editor: 12/05(5)

Libel-Proof Plaintiff: 3/95 (11), 7/96 (4), 6/97 (15), 1/98 (3, 5), 7/98(13), 12/98(23), 6/99(8), 8/99(6), 9/01(10), 4/03(15); 12/04(24); 5/07(13); 9/08(14)

Libel Tourism bills:

Arizona: 2/10(27)

California: 10/09(26)

Florida: 6/09(10)

Hawaii: 6/09(10)

Utah: 2/10(27)

Litigation Privilege: 11/99(13), 2/00(19), 10/00(9), 6/03(25)

Neutral Reportage: 3/95 (11), 6/96 (1), 11/96 (1), 6/97 (13), 11/98(1), 4/00(1), 9/00(13), 12/00(23), 4/02(5), 2/03(21), 11/03(25); 10/04(11); 4/05(25); 6/05 (35), 5/06(28)

Noerr-Pennington: 12/06(20)

Official Duty: 10/99(28), 3/00(42), 4/06(20)

Opinion: 8/94 (1), 11/94 (8), 12/94 (1), 2/95 (5), 3/95 (3), 6/95 (1), 7/95 (1), 11/95 (9), 12/95 (1), 1/96 (6, 11), 3/96 (5, 9), 4/96 (1, 3), 5/96 (3), 9/96 (7), 12/96 (9), 1/97(5), 2/97 (12), 3/97 (5), 4/97 (13, 27, 28), 6/97 (9,10), 7/97 (11), 9/97 (13), 10/97 (19), 1/98 (7), 4/98 (13), 7/98(3), 8/98(15), 9/98(1), 10/98(19), 10/98(25), 11/98(20), 12/98(21)(24), 2/99(8), 4/99(9), 5/99(8), 6/99(43), 8/99 (9), 8/99 (11), 10/99(17), 10/99(25), 10/99(28), 5/00(22), 5/00(29), 8/00(23), 9/00(7, 12),10/00(5), 11/00(14, 16), 12/00(7, 17), 2/01(12, 17), 3/01(12)(15), 4/01(20), 6/01(31), 9/01(19, 27), 11/01(29), 3/02(14), 4/02(17), 6/02(13, 65), 9/02(11), 9/02(13), 12/02(43), 1/03(19), 7/03(13), 7/03(16), 8/03(23), 11/03(15), 12/03(26), 3/04(7); 9/04(27); 1/05(14); 6/05 (53); 8/05 (12); 9/05(14), 10/05(36), 12/05(12), 12/05(17), 1/06 (11), 4/06(15), 4/06(21), 4/06(26), 6/06(20), 8/06(23); 9/06(21); 10/06(36); 10/06(41); 6/07(22); 8/07(12); 6/08(5); 7/08(15); 2/09(9); 09/9(27); 2/10(18)

Broadcasters: 10/06(36)

Cartoons: 5/07(21)

Columnists: 6/07(22)

Ecclesiastical Matters: 1/06 (11)

Editorial: 5/07(21)

Idiomatic Phrases: 1/00(21), 5/00(8)

Implied Undisclosed Facts: 10/05(36)

Internet posting: 6/08(19)

Op-ed columns: 11/99(15), 12/99(17), 3/01(14), 11/01(36), 10/02(37), 4/03(13), 7/03(16); 3/08(22)

Pure opinion: 5/00(23), 5/00(25); 9/09(28)

Radio hosts: 7/08(21); 4/09(17)

Reviews: 3/07(37); 7/08(10)

Totality of the circumstances test: 8/03(22), 3/04(23)

Parody: 6/95 (3), 2/00(15), 10/00(19), 3/01(14), 6/01(17, 18, 23), 10/01(7), 11/01(36), 2/03(30), 3/03(17), 4/03(10), 3/06(22); 4/09(19)

The Daily Show: 2/07(19)

Past Activity: 10/04(20)

Payment: 12/08(13)

Petitioning activity: 12/06(20)

Political Campaigns: 9/05(15)

Public Interest: 2/01(9), 2/01(23), 3/01(9), 6/01(20), 9/02(15); 1/08(15); 9/09(14)

Quasi-Judicial Privilege: 5/03(10)

Rational Interpretation Doctrine: 3/96 (9)

Reckless Disregard, Instructions on: 2/02(14)

Retraction: 5/03(25)

Satire: 5/02(7), 12/02(15), 3/03(17), 10/03(61); 9/04(3); 6/05 (16); 1/10(26)

Self-Defense: 2/06(23)

Single Publication Rule: 9/96 (8), 10/98(16), 11/99(4); 4/00(19), 9/00(2), 12/02(5), 4/03(11), 1/4(7, 9, 11); 9/04(13), 7/06(9), 7/06(13); 8/09(21); 12/09(26)

Sovereign Immunity: 4/06(20)

Statutory Privilege: 2/98 (7), 1/00(27)

Substantial Truth/Truth: 3/95 (3), 6/95 (10), 10/95 (8), 7/96 (5), 8/96 (5), 2/97 (12, 24), 4/97 (5, 7, 8, 13), 9/97 (11), 5/98 (7), 7/98(13), 8/98(14)10/98(15), 11/98(19), 1/99(1), 1/99(7), 3/99(11) (12)(17), 5/99(13), 12/99(5), 1/00(27), 5/00(8), 5/00(19), 11/00(16), 1/01(6), 4/01(5, 11), 7/01(31)(55), 1/02(5), 5/02(19), 9/02(16), 10/02(27), 10/02(31), 10/02(39), 12/02(21), 12/02(29), 1/03(17), 3/03(7), 3/03(15), 3/03(19), 4/04(12), 4/03(20), 4/03(27), 4/03(33), 7/03(13), 8/03(27), 10/03(45), 10/03(59), 11/03(14); 12/04(11, 13); 1/05(16, 29) ; 3/05(31); 4/05(47); 7/05 (33, 39), 12/05(15), 1/06 (21), 3/06(13), 3/06(21), 5/06(35); 10/06(33); 10/06(40); 10/06(41); 10/06(43); 2/07(7); 3/07(21); 4/07(20), 8/07(13); 10/07(15); 10/07(21); 6/08(5); 6/08(21); 6/08(24); 9/08(16); 5/09(18); 7/09(11); 1/10(22)

As a non-absolute defense: 2/09(3)

Collateral Estoppel: 8/02(29), 12/02(21)

Documentary: 2/07(17); 4/07(19)

Kentucky: 10/06(41)

Massachusetts: 09/9(27)

Minnesota: 10/06(40)

Subsidiary Meaning Doctrine: 7/96 (4), 1/01(2); 2/07(9)

Wyoming: 10/06(43)

Substantial truth of allegations (Texas cases): 4/97(7), 4/02(11), 10/02(27); 5/05 (11)

Vituperation (name calling): 1/97 (9)

Wire Service Defense: 12/95 (5), 5/96 (1), 10/96 (4), 12/96 (12), 4/97 (1), 5/98 (3), 10/98(18), 12/03(25)

Reverse Wire Service Defense: 12/03(25)

Product Disparagement Statutes: 1/98 (1)

Pro Se Plaintiffs: 3/95 (13), 6/97 (15)

Publication: 8/99 (21), 11/99(4), 10/00(10), 4/03(35), 5/03(30); 1/05(28); 2/05(35) ; 9/09(23)

Public Concern: 11/98(40), 12/98(24), 4/99(11), 10/99(29), 11/99(36), 1/00(15), 8/00(24), 9/00(14), 11/00(10, 12, 16), 12/00(15), 1/01(15), 2/01(14), 3/01(17), 7/01(27), 8/01(28), 9/02(15), 10/02(40), 11/02(33), 10/05(33); 10/06(31); 6/07(21); 6/08(11); 09/9(25); 12/09(21)

Public Figure Plaintiffs: 7/94 (1), 10/94 (4), 11/94 (5), 1/95 (3), 6/95 (1), 8/95(5), 11/95 (2), 1/96 (11), 5/96 (2), 6/96 (1), 10/96 (5), 11/96 (9), 1/97 (9), 8/97 (10, 12), 9/97 (9, 13), 11/97 (6), 3/98 (7), 4/98 (11, 12), 5/98 (5), 7/98(5), 10/98(23)(28), 11/98(1), 11/98(7) (18), 3/99(15), 9/00(15), 11/00(1), 1/01(9, 16), 3/01(2, 23), 4/01(5, 10, 33), 5/01(25, 27), 10/01(34), 9/02(6), 9/02(15), 10/02(27), 12/02(17), 1/03(17), 2/03(13), 3/03(11), 4/03(12), 4/03(23), 5/03(21), 6/03(15), 7/03(16), 8/03(17), 8/03(25), 10/03(43), 11/03(7, 21), 12/03(29), 2/04(10), 3/04(24), 10/05(33), 11/05(16), 11/05(31), 11/05(44), 2/06(19), 4/06(17), 7/06(10); 10/06(23); 2/07(7); 9/07(19); 1/08(10); 9/08(22); 12/08(17); 4/09(18)

Athletes: 7/03(16); 12/06(17); 11/07(13)

Attorney: 12/07(15); 7/08(13)

Analysis: 4/03(23), 7/03(16)

Burdens upon: 3/95 (1), 2/03(13)

Corporations/Businesses as: 7/97 (19), 10/97 (17), 3/99(15), 8/99 (17), 10/99(25), 5/00(9), 6/03(15), 2/06(19); 10/06(23)

Criminals: 2/10(23)

Former Elected Officials: 3/00(9)

Insufficient evidence to show: 9/06(7)

Involuntary Status of: 3/95 (1, 12), 4/98 (5), 4/99(17), 5/99(9), 10/99(13), 6/00(14), 10/01(3), 2/02(13), 12/02(17); 6/07(8)

Prosecutor as: 4/07(9)

Scientist: 2/07(7)

Statute of Limitations: 12/03(29)

Limited Public Figure Plaintiffs: 1/97 (9, 11), 3/97 (2), 4/97 (13), 8/97 (9), 9/97 (13), 10/98(23), 11/98(7), 10/99(13,17), 12/99(12), 12/99(13), 12/99(14), 5/00(15), 9/00(9), 10/00(7), 11/00(16), 1/01(4), 3/01(7)(13)(18), 6/01(28), 8/01(23), 8/01(29), 10/01(3, 13), 11/01(33), 2/02(13), 4/02(13), 5/02(14, 15), 9/02(19), 10/02(27), 1/03(17), 3/03(11), 4/03(17), 4/03(19), 7/03(17), 8/03(35), 10/03(43), 12/03(21), 11/05(31), 1/06 (19); 9/06(31); 4/07(19); 9/07(19); 2/08(21); 5/08(21); 7/08(5); 7/08(11); 8/08(15); 09/9(25); 12/09(21)

Corporations as: 7/07(21)

Involuntary Status: 12/03(21)

Medial practitioner as: 4/07(19)

Reporter as: 10/98(8), 4/99(6), 5/03(21), 8/03(35)

Vortex: 9/98(13), 10/98(8)

Public Official Plaintiffs: 10/96 (4), 4/97 (9), 8/97 (7), 9/97(9), 6/98(9),8/98(11), 10/98(9), 7/99(27), 9/00(15), 10/00(9), 10/00(14), 11/00(17), 12/00(17), 1/01(5), 2/01(7), 4/01(20), 6/01(23), 11/01(31), 9/02(11), 9/02(13), 10/02(31), 10/02(37), 12/02(19), 12/02(29), 1/03(19), 3/03(13), 3/03(13), 10/03(42), 2/04(7, 25); 6/08(5)

Transmutation of general criticism of government against individual: 3/03(13)

Court-appointed psychologist as: 10/98(9)

Police Officer as: 6/00(3), 10/02(27); 8/08(7)

Police Advisory Commissioner as: 12/06(19)

Spouse of a Public Official: 2/02(12); 12/06(20)

Public Meetings: 10/06(42)

Punitives, Rejection of: 2/04(15); 12/04(19)

Rap Lyrics: 1/05(13)

Rehabilitation: 10/04(17); 12/04(15)

Reporter v. Media: 3/03(19), 8/03(35)

Rebuttal: 12/08(12)

Sanctions: 4/08(32)

Discovery-related: 12/06(21); 9/07(26)

Sarcastic Tone, as Proof of Libel: 10/95 (8)

Special verdict forms: 2/05(25)

Settlements: 4/00(8), 1/01(16), 6/01(35, 36), 7/01(24), 7/03(8), 7/03(19), 11/03(13)

Negotiations: 3/03(15)

Plaintiff pays to settle: 11/03(13)

Shield law: 4/07(24)

Statute of Limitations: 5/97 (8), 10/99(21), 11/99(4), 4/00(13), 1/01(17), 3/01(23), 4/01(17), 12/01(23), 11/02(15), 11/02(23), 4/03(31), 5/03(25), 12/03(39), 12/05(42); 4/08(32); 6/08(26)

Summary judgment Standard: 11/04(25); 9/06(7); 9/06(12); 12/06(22); 2/07(7); 6/09(5)

Survey:

Newspaper Editor awareness: 12/06(41)

Television

Documentaries: 4/07(19)

Talk Show (Statements made on): 2/05 (19)

Trade Libel: 10/98(21); 5/08(18)

Underground Newspapers: 3/02(13)

Vanity Publishers: 8/06(19); 8/08(11)

Libel Defense Resource Center: see Media Law Resource Center

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Malicious Prosecution: 4/97 (29), 6/03(37), 2/04(58)

Media Regulation:

International

UK: 8/03(59)

Media Law Resource Center

Anniversary (25^th): 11/05(55)

Annual Dinner

preview of: 2/02(3)

summary of: 11/97 (37), 11/99(1), 11/00(33), 11/01(49), 11/02(3), 11/04 (5), 11/05(4); 10/06(8); 11/07(3); 11/08(3)

Annual Meetings (Minutes of)

Defense Counsel Section: 11/97 (39), 11/98(46), 12/99(28), 11/01(51), 11/02(6), 11/03(59); 12/04 (65), 11/05(51); 11/07(34); 12/08(38)

Media Members: 11/97 (36), 11/98(43), 11/99(43), 11/01(50), 11/02(3), 11/03(59); 12/04(63), 11/05(49); 11/07(32); 12/08(36)

Awards

Brennan Defense of Freedom Award: 7/03(68)

First Amendment Leadership Awards: 10/02 (6); 10/04(7); 10/06(5); 10/08(3)

Board of Directors: 12/00(3)

Bulletins: 12/99(31), 2/00(1), 8/00(1), 12/00(2), 2/01(2), 4/01(2), 12/01(50), 2/02(3), 8/02(62), 9/02(49), 12/02(48), 1/03(38), 3/03(3), 7/03(5)

Bench/Media Relations: 11/01(43)

Criminal Libel: 3/03(3)

Damages: 8/94 (4), 2/96 (1), 2/97 (2), 2/98 (3); 2/05(17); 2/09(6)

Independent Appellate Review: 5/94 (4), 9/96 (24)

Motions to Dismiss: 10/04(22)

Right of Publicity: 2/95 (4)

Summary Judgment: 8/97 (30), 11/97 (12, 13)

Trials and Damages: 7/03(5), 2/06(5); 2/07(5); 2/08(5)

Committees: 1/03(47)

Ethics: 6/02(63), 7/02(63), 8/02(59)

Prepublication Review: 7/02(13), 12/02(31), 5/04(55), 6/04(45), 7/04(67)

Product Disparagement: 1/98 (24)

Reports: 4/00(59), 5/01(35), 2/02(53)

Conferences: 4/97 (30)

Canada Conference: 5/05 (49)

Libel Conference: 10/02 (3), 10/02 (9), 10/02(56)

London Conference: 12/97 (5), 2/98 (2), 3/98 (17), 5/98 (29, 37, 39, 40), 10/00(43, 45), 10/03(5), 9/05(35, 37), 9/07(3), 1/09(9), 2/09(8)

Lord Justice David Keene: 10/03(5)

Moscow Conference: 12/96 (24), 7/97 (31, 34)

NAA/NAB/MLRC Conference: 10/08(5)

MLRC/Southwestern Law School Conference: 1/09(8)

DCS Executive Committee Mid-Year Update: 6/05 (5)

Executive Director

News from: 3/98 (29), 2/02(3)

First Amendment Education Project: 6/00(46), 11/00(35), 6/01(2), 11/01(48), 4/02(60)

Judicial References in Newsgathering: 2/02(16)

MediaLawLetter (formerly LibelLetter)

Notice of future delivery via e‑mail: 12/01(28)

Mock Trial: 9/05(37, 39)

Op-Eds: 4/03(11)

Practice Guides:

Actual Malice: 11/01(56)

Public Advocacy Center in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina: 9/01(15)

Seminars

“Free Press in a Free Society”: 4/05(44)

Thank You

Robin Bierstedt: 12/02(3)

Hal Fuson: 12/04(5)

Bruce Johnson: 12/04(5)

Lee Levine: 12/03(4)

David Schulz: 12/02(3)

Mary Ann Werner: 12/03(4)

White Papers

Reporter’s Privilege: 8/04(7)

Mediation: 4/99(18)

Metadata: 2/06(47); 11/09(29)

Military Secrets Privilege: 10/05(53)

Military Training (of journalists): 11/02(41)

Misappropriation: See Privacy, Invasion of

Mock Trial: 10/04(51)

Mug Shots: 9/05(23); 9/05(24)

Must-Carry Regulations: 4/97 (1)f

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Negligence: 6/94 (appendix), 2/95 (3), 2/97 (9), 3/97 (11), 5/98 (17), 1/01(25), 5/03(15), 7/03(13), 7/03(27), 7/03(65), 2/06(21); 10/06(33)

Industry Custom: 11/98(24)

Negligent Promotion: 12/95 (7)

Negligent Publication: 2/95 (3), 5/97 (9), 4/98 (11), 5/98 (17), 9/00(32, 38); 11/09(24)

Newsgathering

Waco, TX Claims: 12/94 (11), 7/94 (3), 9/94 (1, 2), 4/96 (1), 11/96 (3)

Radio Show: 11/07(17); 10/09(21)

Reporting Mistake: 9/98(7), 3/00(14)

Stop-Delivery Notices: 12/04(62)

Talk Shows: 5/99(20), 11/02(13), 8/03(12), 11/03(33); 9/04(19)

Duty of Care: 3/96 (4), 8/03(12), 11/03(33); 9/04(19)

Wrongful Death: 1/97 (5), 2/97 (9), 5/97 (9, 13), 11/97 (1), 9/00(38), 3/01(20)(21), 11/01(9), 6/02(33), 11/02(13), 8/03(12)

Negligent Hiring/Employment: 2/98 (9), 7/98(15), 12/98(9), 10/99(40)

Negligent Misrepresentation: 6/98(12), 7/98(2), 11/03(32)

Net Neutrality (See also, Cyber): 7/06(25); 7/07(49)(overview of debate)

News Councils: 4/00(47)

Newsgathering: 7/94 (3), 10/94 (2), 12/94 (3), 1/95 (1), 12/95 (4,6), 7/98(18),11/98(13), 9/00(23, 50), 10/00(22), 10/02(22), 10/02(36), 6/03(40), 1/04(31), 2/04(27); 8/04(47)

Anti-Paparazzi Bills: 9/97 (7), 2/98 (13, 14), 3/98 (15), 4/98 (20), 5/98 (21), 9/98(27), 10/98(30); 10/09(24)

Anti‑SLAPP Statutes, inapplicability of: 1/02(23)

Attorney-Client Privilege: 8/97 (23)

Bivens claim: 7/08(35)

Breach of Contract: 11/99(45), 12/99(22), 1/00(13), 9/00(23); 10/09(31)

News Embargo: 8/09(24)

Breach of Duty of Loyalty: 1/97 (3), 5/97 (1), 9/97 (1), 10/99(1), 8/01(21)

Breach of Promise: 4/01(36)

Bribery: 10/99(35), 11/99(41), 1/00(35), 7/00(9), 12/00(8)

Cameraman arrested: 7/08(36)

Civil Rights Violations: 4/97 (28)

Civil Contempt (Reporters Held in): 2/98 (10), 10/98(4), 11/98(30)(32), 12/98(4), 5/99(31), 10/00(11), 1/01(27), 4/01(9), 8/01(7), 9/01(6), 10/01(32), 11/01(17), 12/01(43, 45), 2/02(33), 6/02(53), 7/02(39, 42), 8/04(8, 11); 9/09(17)

Civil Trespass: 1/04(5)

Criminal charges: 6/03(40), 12/03(56)

Under French Privacy Law: 11/03(29)

Criminal Contempt (Reporters held in): 1/98 (20), 3/98 (23), 11/98(30); 11/04 (9)

Criminal Hearings: 8/04(43)

Criminal Trespass: 7/07(41)

Confidential Information, publication of: 9/00(50), 4/01(35)

Conspiracy: 2/97 (12), 11/00(30), 7/01(21), 8/01(20)

Duty to Conduct "Follow Up" Inquiry: 9/00(28)

Eavesdropping Statutes: 4/00(27), 7/03(25)

Exit polling: 5/08(40)

False Imprisonment: 2/98 (13)

"Follow-along" claims: 6/98(22)

Foreign:

Government Search of Reporter: 10/06(51)

Netherlands: 9/08(32)

Fraud: 1/97 (3), 2/97 (1, 24), 3/97 (11), 5/97 (1), 8/97 (21), 9/97 (1,5), 6/98 (11), 7/98(1), 10/98(33), 12/98(12), 1/99(10)(14), 3/99(35), 10/99(1,3), 11/99(20), 1/00(13), 10/00(24), 8/01(21), 10/02(17), 11/03(32); 10/09(31)

Foreign

Australia: 2/02(29)

Hidden Camera: 1/97 (3), 2/97 (1), 4/97 (27), 10/97 (1), 10/98(33), 12/98(11)(24), 1/99(13), 3/99(35), 5/99(17), 10/99(1,5), 3/00(5), 11/00(17), 12/00(7), 1/01(11), 2/01(23), 10/02(17), 5/03(13), 6/03(43), 7/03(25), 7/03(28); 9/04(21); 10/04(15); 11/04(11, 17)

Injunctions Upon: 4/96 (1), 2/97 (1), 1/01(23)

Interviews & Outtakes (criminal defendants): 1/99(24), 4/01(28)

Intrusion Claim: 11/03(32)

Limitations & Commercial Speech: 5/02(3)

Misrepresentation: 3/00(1), 10/00(23); 3/07(3)

NASD/NYSE (analyst conflict of interest rule): 12/02(33), 4/03(53)

Non-Confidential Sources: 8/04(12)

"Perp Walk," staged: 9/00(33), 5/01(5), 9/03(3); 6/09(15)

Polling: 11/04 (30)

Pretrial Discovery: 8/04(45)

Publisher Arrests: 7/01(19)

Recorded Interviews: 1/00(1), 1/01(19), 8/01(17)

Reporter Arrests: 1/00(36, 37), 6/03(41)

RICO: 4/95 (1), 5/95 (1), 2/97 (12), 4/97 (28)

Ride-Along Claims: 6/94 (1), 9/94 (1), 12/94 (3), 3/96 (11, 12), 9/96 (1), 12/96 (11), 1/97 (1), 3/97 (15), 11/97 (21), 1/98 (16), 5/98 (20), 10/98(37), 11/98(25), 5/99(25), 6/99(1), 10/99(41), 11/99(41), 4/01(29), 8/01(3, 13), 7/02(17)

Sports, and Real-Time Scores: 1/01(33), 1/03(7), 2/04(27)

Stalking Statutes: 11/96 (19), 9/97 (7), 4/99(41), 9/99 (7)

State Actor: 10/02(19)

Temporary Restraining Orders: 12/98(13), 5/99(17), 9/00(35), 12/02(38), 4/03(9), 7/03(43)

Tortious Newsgathering Claim: 4/01(31), 10/02(17)

Trespass: 1/97 (1, 3, 5), 5/97 (1), 9/97 (1), 9/98(17), 10/98(33), 12/98(11), 1/99(15), 3/99(35), 10/99(1,3), 9/00(31), 4/01(5, 29), 8/01(14, 21), 9/01(29), 10/02(17), 10/02(19), 3/03(19), 6/03(41), 8/04(16); 8/05 (14); 7/08(17)

Wiretap: 9/97 (8), 8/98(5), 10/98(31), 11/98(13), 11/98(25), 12/98(17), 1/99(15)(17)(19)(21), 3/99(47), 4/99(45), 5/99(17), (37), 6/99(5), 7/99(39), 9/99(5), 10/99(7,10), 11/99(35,38), 1/00(7), 8/00(9), 9/00(30), 11/00(29), 12/00(1), 1/01(11), 6/01(5, 29), 8/01(15), 9/01(37), 11/01(22), 1/02(21), 10/03(26); 7/05 (35), 7/06(4); 8/09(35)

Choice of law: 5/00(41)

Internet: 2/01(29); 7/07(15)

Texas statute: 2/07(3)

Receipt and use of tape: 5/07(9); 7/07(15)

Newsletters: 10/09(15)

Defamation: 9/06(6)

Shield law application: 9/06(6)

Newsracks

Raids/theft of newspapers: 4/02(51)

Regulations: 2/02(31), 3/03(49), 3/03(51); 12/04(57), 3/06(57)

Newsroom Issues

Ban on Political Activity: 3/97 (1), 5/97 (20)

Codes of Conduct: 3/97 (2)

Guidelines: 6/99(40)

Newsroom Director, as Expert Witness: 9/00(23)

Retaliation Aimed at Chilling News Reporter: 1/97 (13), 9/00(23); 5/05 (5, 7)

Search warrants: 4/99(26)

Newsworthiness: 12/04(27)

§ 1983 Action: 2/06(3); 2/10(25)

Non-commercial Speech: 12/06(23)

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Obituaries

William S. Dixon: 4/03(73)

Katharine Graham: 7/01(60)

Richard L. Klein: 4/02(3)

Samuel E. Klein: 4/02(3)

Obscenity: 3/96 (19), 7/97 (23), 3/98 (32), 2/99(18), 9/99 (6), 4/02(50), 12/05(49), 5/06(37)

“Official Secrets Act”

Proposed: 11/00(26), 8/01(19); 10/06(61)

Shelved: 9/01(16)