media-access
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A76 | Stepup Funny, L.L.C., dba Stepup Funny, dba AA7 Days v. Newsweek Digital, L.L.C. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-21 | Presumed Complete | confidentiality first-amendment improper-purposes judicial-records media-access privacy-interests | Question not identified. | |
| 21-7484 | Hayze L. Schoonover v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | courtroom-closure defendant-rights media-access overriding-interest public-trial sixth-amendment substantial-reason waller-test | Whether allowing the media to remain in the courtroom preserves a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial during a partial courtroom closu… |
| 21-614 | Brian Green v. Pierce County, Washington | Washington | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | citizen-journalism citizen-journalist corporate-personhood first-amendment free-speech media-access press press-freedom public-records | Whether barring individual citizen-journalists from accessing public records otherwise made available to news media, for lack of corporate personhood,… |
| 19-6442 | William Conrad Yeager, II v. National Public Radio, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights defamation defamation-law first-amendment free-speech libel libel-standards media-access newsworthiness public-controversy public-figure public-figure-doctrine public-interest | Whether the petitioner, an unknown musician and independent filmmaker, who fails to meet the requirements for a limited purpose public figure under Ge… |
| 19-6130 | George W. Fisher v. John Gregory Mermelstein, et al | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | IFP | 1st-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection free-speech media-access medical-treatment prison prisoner-rights state-liability | Whether the denial of media treatment at a state prison violates the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press |