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Abstracts: Congress orders probes into aircraft-fraud cases. Woman charged breast job on Pentagon plastic. Most defense CEOs got big raises last year
Abstracts: Congress should steer clear of state drivers' records. The press preps for war hopeful, skeptical. The ups and downs of covering the homefront
Abstracts: Congress to decide Navy money issues. Navy, ABS aim for ship design, purchase rules. Globalization rises in defense industry, more contracts likely going overseas
Abstracts: Congress votes to require 'V-chip' in television sets. Congress, FCC focus on 'kid TV.' TV violence spurs hearings, threats from Congress
Abstracts: Conjugal love and the enlightenment subject: the colonial context of non-identity in Maria Edgeworth's 'Belinda.'
Abstracts: Conrad's bureaucrats: agency, bureaucracy and the problem of intention. Seeing through reading: class, race and literary authority in Joseph Conrad's 'The Nigger of the 'Narcissus.' (novel)
Abstracts: Consumers: stories on credit errors focus on how they occu. Gore and OXY. Uncovering war atrocities: veterans Hersh, Schanberg: stories have always been tough sells
Abstracts: Contractors, DOD spar over buying American. Point Blank Body Armor passes test, Army says. CIA's armed Predator: Friendly-fire risk?
Abstracts: Convictions overturned over quashed subpoenas. State high court overturned lawyer's admonishment for speaking to media
Abstracts: Co-op newsletter wins repeal of order to compel publication, bar communication with class members. Ex-CIA employee has no claim to memo he wrote on Bay of Pigs operation
Abstracts: Coors wins right to display alcohol content; ban on beer label disclosure violates brewer's speech rights. Court upholds ban on lottery ads
Abstracts: Corruption investigator's reports prepared for court are public records. New Era cannot keep donor records secret
Abstracts: County required to provide tax records in electronic format. Congress considers electronic freedom of information bills
Abstracts: Court allows disclosure of portions of criminal investigative reports. Date with disclosure: the dogged pursuit by the news media of executive calendars produces mixed results
Abstracts: Court allows suit based on vague identification. Court upholds dismissal of civil rights suit. Court upholds dismissal of Business Week suit
Abstracts: Court allows use of unpublished work. Court protects raw footage used in news stories. Parody of magazine photograph ruled a 'fair use.'
Abstracts: Court approves closing of jury selection. Maryland court strikes down trial closure. Courts allow order requiring journalists to sign secrecy agreement
Abstracts: Court declines to review public official ruling. State high court affirms libel verdict over editorial. Court upholds critic's review of 'fake phantom.' (drama critic's review of Ken Hill's version of 'Phantom of the Opera')
Abstracts: Court dismisses emotional distress suit. FCC ordered to review charge of CBS news distortion. Court upholds charge for taking inmate note
Abstracts: Court dismisses emotional distress suit. Negligence suit against reporter as cause of suicide reinstated: court upholds high standard for imposing liability, but finds dismissal premature
Abstracts: Court expands fair report privilege to private individuals. Judge's libel suit over 'crystal ball' allegation properly dismissed
Abstracts: Court expands fair report privilege to private individuals. State high court allows use of 'wire service' defense in libel suits
Abstracts: Court extends fair comment privilege. Utah Supreme Court sends libel case back to trial. $550,000 verdict against Fortune reversed
Abstracts: Court finds newspaper's survey not infringement on trademark. Column name may be trademark, court rules
Abstracts: Court finds prosecutor's right to cross-examine can trump reporter's privilege. Contempt order overturned due to invalid seal
Abstracts: Court finds 'slut' is defamatory without need to prove damages to reputation. City supervisor not public official, figure: court rules calling street repair "paving" is defamatory
Abstracts: Court halts enforcement of indecency rule. Groups challenge FCC indecency penalties. Government enjoined from enforcing indecency law
Abstracts: Court holds truth no defense when words spoken with malicious motives. Alabama court send libel case back to jury
Abstracts: Court limits access to tapes used in trial. Access to Gates deposition blocked by appellate court stay. Newspaper may sue to open sealed divorce records
Abstracts: Court limits access to tapes used in trial. Arkansas court allows access to juveniles' names. Appeals panel opens memos read in court
Abstracts: Court oks closure of task force meetings. Agreements on open meetings violations include damages; agencies across the country have been paying costs, promising openness
Abstracts: Court oks closure of task force meetings. Closed meetings on golf course development violate law. Arts council can keep meetings closed, judge says
Abstracts: Court opens abortion permission appeals. States try to open records on suits, keep sex-crime victims' names secret
Abstracts: Court opens report on basketball probe. Court rejects request for names. Giving away the store: state court adopts controversial business exemption precedent
Abstracts: Court orders Army hearing must be open to public. Settlement cannot be confidential by agreement of parties. Alabama sets out procedure for closures
Abstracts: Court orders state board to ignore sunshine law in testimony before federal monitoring committee. Court orders release of harassment report
Abstracts: Court overturns closing of trial, sealing record. Newspaper wins access to parents' trial in juvenile court. Judge's decision to seal transcripts in governor's fraud trial overturned
Abstracts: Court overturns closure of hearing for juvenile charged with murder. Court rejects plaintiff's bid for secrecy
Abstracts: Court overturns fines against reporter. Court finds reporter's privilege only when media being harassed. Court reaffirms qualified reporter's privilege for nonconfidential information: but panel lowers the standard parties must meet
Abstracts: Court permits closure challenge to continue after trial ends. Judge was wrong to deny media access in King trial
Abstracts: Court refuses to set "libel by implication" standard. English libel judgment found repugnant to U.S., state law: state high court refuses to enforce claim in dispute between two former Soviet citizens
Abstracts: Court rejects plaintiff's bid for secrecy. Judge ejects cameras in governor's trial, despite parties' consent
Abstracts: Court releases names in prostitution probe. Interest in exposing FBI misconduct justifies release of records. Records on state employees' unused sick leave are public
Abstracts: Court rules airports not public forums. 'Anti-littering' ordinance to stop home newspaper delivery is unconstitutional
Abstracts: Court rules judge should review notes. Shield law protects reporter's notes on jailhouse interview: publication of portions of interview does not constitute waiver of privilege
Abstracts: Court rules remark about church not actionable. Lawsuit documents privileged even if known to be false. Reports based on secret probe privileged
Abstracts: Court rules teachers are public officials. Privilege covering statement at council hearings not absolute; statements unrelated to matter discussed or known to be false not protected
Abstracts: Courts back refusal to release Hoffa files. Federal law does not require release of drug testing data. Disclosure of police discipline records uneven: courts in Massachusetts, Ohio allow access; California says no
Abstracts: Courts back refusal to release Hoffa files. High court finds no privilege in airport expansion records. Not all FBI sources are secret, Supreme Court holds
Abstracts: Courts find newsrack restrictions unlawful. Appeals court strikes down newsrack ban. High Court strikes newsrack regulation
Abstracts: Court shuts door on right to discover and correct personal electronic data. Girl's death leads to legislative action
Abstracts: Court shuts door on right to discover and correct personal electronic data. part 2 Justice releases proposed regulations to implement electronic FOI changes
Abstracts: Courts looking more closely at reporter-source relationships. Wen Ho Lee story reminder: secrecy calls for skepticism
Abstracts: Courts reexamine access to jury information: Missouri, Ohio high courts affirm presumptive right of access. District attorney petitions appeals court to vacate judge's order permitting 'Frontline' to tape jury
Abstracts: Court strikes down 19th century law allowing libel suits over truthful but malicious claims. Police officers treated as public officials for purposes of libel suits
Abstracts: Court strikes down sealed case indexes. Court opens some records of doctor review panels. Court strikes down secrecy law
Abstracts: Court tells police to release reports or show harm. Civilian complaints of police misconduct must be released
Abstracts: Court throws out order opening records. States move to open access to records. Court guts state's open records law
Abstracts: Court upholds contempt order against NBC. Going, going, gone? Two networks, AP photographer forced to turn over tape, film
Abstracts: Court upholds dismissal of HIV-positive man's privacy suit: two judges find the 'disclosure of private facts' tort is not recognized in the state
Abstracts: Covering local cable companies. Investigating rape. Working in the margins: Leon Dash works where others don't - finding the real stories behind poverty, teenage pregnancy and drugs
Abstracts: Covering your local electric co-op. Covering the Klan. Covering the newest ADA decisions
Abstracts: Cover-up aboard the USS Iowa. Trader's secrets: how to cover the new money makers. In deep: covering the oceans that cover the Earth
Abstracts: Cracks in nature's FTL armor. Our runaway universe and Einstein's cosmological constant. Supernova in a Bose-Einstein bottle
Abstracts: Critics question constitutionality of criminal libel laws. Public hospital is forced by state supreme court to release employee information to newspaper
Abstracts: Crooks cited bogus Pentagon reports. Plane makers bought suspect parts by the thousands. Goodrich's military work now one-quarter of business
Abstracts: Customs cannot withhold Perot records automatically: 'policy' of exempting entire categories narrowed by court ruling
Abstracts: Cutting-edge newsroom faces marketplace woes. When numbers talk, journalists help people listen. Newest training efforts reach across newsroom
Abstracts: Cyberspaced out: manners and mores in the global village. The grand compositor: The job of the future. The power of rotting plants, or how SF solved global warming
Abstracts: Damages for broken promise upheld. State's 'due process' right doesn't trump shield law. Naming source not waiver of privilege
Abstracts: Damages in Food Lion fraud, trespass suit reduced by court; judged calls $5.5 million punitive damages award 'disproportionate' to actual damages
Abstracts: Dangerous skies: Agency roadblocks overcome to show millions of potential weapons seized. Federal money: Security official equally confounded by list documenting stakes critical assets
Abstracts: DAPRA drove military revolution, institute. DHS tech boss: For some answers. Firm to commercialize handheld radiation detector
Abstracts: Database reporting reveals food handling gone wrong: work also shows inspections sometimes not taking place. Bankrolling art: IRS information reveals stiff competition for funds
Abstracts: David Mamet's "A Wasted Weekend". Theater as persuasion: the plays of Wallace Shawn. Differing dramatic dynamics in the stage and screen versions of 'Glengarry Glen Ross'
Abstracts: D.C. Council considers enacting shield law. Legislature passes nation's 31st shield law after long struggle. A special role for the media?
Abstracts: Dear Analog: a history of brass tacks. Stemming the tide of aging and disease. Brain-machine interfaces
Abstracts: Death records in boy's murder must be released: public interest outweighs interests in confidentiality under common law test
Abstracts: Death row defense: indigent inmates get poor representation. Outside extortion: family members forced to pay for inmate safety
Abstracts: Defining a "full" record. Alternative realities from Argentina: Angelica Gorodischer's "los embriones del violeta"
Abstracts: Demonstrators have right to protest, leaflet in New Jersey shopping malls. High court upholds forfeiture of books
Abstracts: Description and speculation: an interview with Robin Becker. The subject is life: an interview with Naomi Shihab Nye
Abstracts: Despite press conferences, grandparents in child abuse case not "public figures." Principal is public official, Vermont high court rules
Abstracts: Development: mapping of growth areas shows regulations ignored. Medical welfare rip-off: California clinics use homeless to file false claims
Abstracts: Devils and vices in English non-cycle plays: sacrament and social body. Social disorder, festive celebration, and Jean Michel's 'Le Mistere de la Passion JesusCrist
Abstracts: DHS provides opportunity to industry, labs. Northrop Grumman to develop laser for MDA. Nuclear-testing laser sets record
Abstracts: DHS sees surge in research funding. House committee approves $369 billion for fiscal 2004. Aerospace gets biggest defense research boost
Abstracts: DHS solicits anti-missile technology. 2004: The year of big bucks for anti-terror. Anton Security teams can asess vulnerabilities
Abstracts: Did an Iranian 'stooge' mislead U.S. into Iraqi war? Job one in Iraq: Fix the electricity system. Iraq reconstruction under microscope
Abstracts: Digital copyright law hacks away at First Amendment rights. 'Wind Done Gone' author seeks right to parody classic
Abstracts: Dirty dining: FOI records blitz overcomes challenges in revealing stadium food safety violations. Sources for police investigations: looking into civil-rights violations
Abstracts: Disaster aftermath. Parents surrender children to gain mental health aid. At the wheel
Abstracts: Disclosure and secrecy: security classification executive orders. Turning back the clock on access: FOIA case requires public to show compelling need for disclosure
Abstracts: Disclosure of mug shots is unwarranted invasion of privacy. Schools can release crime reports, keep funding. Sex-offender registry laws withstand privacy challenges
Abstracts: Discounted victims: Underreporting of city's sex crimes leads to investigation of police 'crime memos'. Checking criminal backgrounds
Abstracts: Dismissal of privacy suit over story on runaway and her puppy upheld. Different results in two suits over TV crews on police raids
Abstracts: Dismissal of Washington lobbyist's libel suit against book author upheld on appeal. Libel suit against ABC's 'Prime Time Live' dismissed
Abstracts: District attorney orders videotape of school bus beating seized moments before airing: prosecutor says broadcast would inflame racial tensions
Abstracts: Document in the history of science fiction: Karel Capek's preface to Bila Nemoc. Matters of Translation: Karel Capek and Paul Selver
Abstracts: DOE, U.S. firms to report more nuclear activities to IAEA. Belatedly, Congress asks for answers on tankers. Congress warns Bush, Israel on Arrow exports
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