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Abstracts: Philip Morris wins right to reporters' records. Improper testimony about source must be challenged at trial, court says
Abstracts: Photographers fight dousing, film seizure. Photographer, newspaper settle suit with NTSB; board, state apologize for confiscating film at airplane crash site
Abstracts: Pirandello's 'Sei Personaggi' and expressive form. Memory and madness in Pirandello's Enrico IV. Pirandello, the sacred, and the death of tragedy
Abstracts: Plaintiffs look to lenient British libel laws. Louisiana Supreme Court rejects libel of the dead. Libel suit reinstated over 'malice' definition confusion
Abstracts: Plan set for annual IRE board elections. Annual conference hosts huge crowd in Washington, D.C.. Embedding delivered propaganda as well as important information
Abstracts: Playboy wins rights to paintings: magazine wins some, loses some claims to Nagel works. Magazine sues to expedite search of files on Perot
Abstracts: Plea deals: criminals avoid felony records even after pleading guilty . Justice still in question after records exposed in case of imprisoned teen
Abstracts: Police may continue to withhold investigative records even though no charges filed after two years. Legal bills not exempt from public disclosure
Abstracts: Police may withhold victims' addresses, despite requirement to disclose "location of occurrence."(Indiana) School must disclose animal research data
Abstracts: Police must give disciplinary records to student journalists. Police, council records must be opened
Abstracts: Police must give disciplinary records to student journalists. part 2 Schools must release outside revenue records of coaches, other employees
Abstracts: Police promotional exam scores, scale must be disclosed. 'Comp time' records for state employees must be disclosed
Abstracts: Police records: a guide to effective access in the 50 states & D.C. The Driver's Privacy Protection Act: a federal collision with states' rights
Abstracts: Police seize film from photo lab. Separation orders can keep reporters from covering trials. As a last resort, habeas petitions can keep journalists out of jail
Abstracts: Policies on media access released by police, federal commission. Public has no right of access to plea agreement that was revoked
Abstracts: Politics. Nonprofits: charities lend millions to officers, directors. Guidestar a valuable link to nonprofits
Abstracts: Polluting the universe. Seldon's psychohistory. Been there, done that, but should we do it again?
Abstracts: Poultry problems: how to do stories that make your stomach turn. Remembering the outrage: (how to focus on people rather than issues)
Abstracts: Power brokers: Social network analysis helps show relationships between business, city. Digging into history: AP investigates U.S. actions during Korean War
Abstracts: Preacher's vigil, landlord's watch: Charity by the clock in Adam Bede. When bad things happen to bad people: liability and individual consciousness in "Adam Bede" and "Silas Marner"
Abstracts: Predestination and the heresy of merit in 'Othello.' The hybrid reformation of Shakespeare's second Henriad. Felt absences: the stage properties of 'Othello's' handkerchief
Abstracts: President, networks agree on children's television measure. Flight in non-terrestrial atmospheres, or, the hang-glider's guide to the galaxy
Abstracts: Presumed guilty: how negligent journalists contribute to wrongful convictions. CIA policy allows agents to enlist, pose as journalists
Abstracts: Pretensions to heroism: how to avoid being fooled by phony military veterans. Hidden dangers: airlines and hazmat
Abstracts: PrimeTime Live's use of hidden cameras, test patients not fraudulent, court finds. More states OK use of cameras in courtrooms
Abstracts: Prison ban on media interviews upheld. Law barring 'sexually explicit' publications in prison upheld. Ban on post-trial talks with jurors upheld
Abstracts: Prison guard loses libel suit against prisoners' legal services; fails to show actual malice in violence report
Abstracts: Privacy Act record restriction limited by court. FBI must search beyond main record system to satisfy request
Abstracts: Privacy exemptions may prove higher hurdle than national security. Inmate health care: officials ignore warning signs; care lacking or too late
Abstracts: Privacy: panel addresses growing debate over protected information. Kansas drivers: fight for accident records pays off in multiple stories
Abstracts: Private hells and radical doubts: an interview with Jonathan Lethem. War of the World-Views: A conversation with James Morrow
Abstracts: Private nonprofit group receiving public funds is subject to records act. Private health contractor for jail subject to records law
Abstracts: Private school board meeting violates act. Animal fund wins access to scientists' panel. Meeting law does not apply to governor's advisory panel
Abstracts: Private sector aided massive sealift operations, says admiral. On Littoral ship, manning is major challenge
Abstracts: Probing military dangers: use of super ammo raises health concerns. Military assaults: few sex offenders, abusers face justice in military ranks or service academics
Abstracts: Prosecutor's 'due process' right overcomes reporter's privilege. Contents of innocently received audiotapes can be published
Abstracts: Prosecutors subpoena media for riot photos. High court rejects subpoena by anonymous corporation. Student journalist fighting prosecutor's subpoena
Abstracts: Prospectus. Cold fusion: the "miracle" is no mistake. The world's simplest fusion reactor and how to make it
Abstracts: Protective order can be modified after documents filed: media parties allowed to intervene in suit over operation of retirement community
Abstracts: Public broadcaster cannot exclude qualified candidates from debate. Public broadcaster not required to accept Klan sponsorship
Abstracts: Public broadcaster not required to accept Klan sponsorship. Photo used to illustrate story does not violate privacy rights
Abstracts: Public concern outweighs privacy: High Court sides with press when school officials sued over recorded phone call
Abstracts: Public information - but not too public. Most federal agencies behind schedule on EFOIA. Court throws out order opening records
Abstracts: Publicity does not create presumption of bias, court finds. Media allowed to intervene to view governor's deposition
Abstracts: Public journalism from the streets. Fisher critical to IRE success. Dogged determination: remembering Jerry Uhrhammer
Abstracts: Public records. Felons. Public price: Convention center expansion falls short of expectations for area-wide profitability
Abstracts: Public records held by private agencies must be reasonably accessible to public. City can sue requester to determine if records are public
Abstracts: Public records. Senior scam. Shuttle breakup: disaster plan helps team to keep focus in yearlong probe
Abstracts: Public university must release records to professors' group. State court orders school to release response to probe
Abstracts: Public versus private. Accept no substitutes. Stress management
Abstracts: Publisher may be liable for contract killing based on book. NLRB loses round in 'blind box' advertising subpoena fight: court finds 'chilling effect' on ability to publish ads would violate the Constitution
Abstracts: Publisher not required to investigate charges in book: dismissal of McFarlane's suit over 'October Surprise' allegations upheld on appeal
Abstracts: Pulling G's. Vote records. Military aviation
Abstracts: Quality control II: reminder and speculation. Too hard? Excuses and evolution
Abstracts: Quality vs. quantity: how to do TV consumer investigative reporting with small budgets and staffs. Big hurdles: Investigative lessons for small staffs: 'Tell them you're not going to back down'
Abstracts: Questions about charity held not libelous. Speculation about police pickets held to be opinion, not libelous. Court wrongly prohibited libelous speech
Abstracts: Questions about charity held not libelous. Statement that author was 'ignored' not libelous. Financial column on 'sour' sugar substitute stock not libelous
Abstracts: Race and transplants: the wait is longer for some. Fatal outbreak. Hunted everywhere: collaging the capitol
Abstracts: Racial health divide: series focuses on deadly difference. Bed-to-bed infections: deadly germs spreading through nation's hospitals
Abstracts: Racial profiling. Biotech bet: Millions in taxpayer investment dollars go out-of-state; private gains questioned
Abstracts: Radical mimesis: the "Pinter problem" revisited. Ariel Dorfman and Harold Pinter: politics of the periphery and theater of the metropolis
Abstracts: Radio station not liable for 'negligent promotion' after 'ladies night' drunk driver causes accident. Secrecy won't help restore public confidence in courts
Abstracts: Random thoughts on the art of interviewing. Reflections of a lapsed freelancer: dealing with unanswered query letters and pleas for payment
Abstracts: Rape victim's identity ruled matter of public concern. Court recognizes privacy claims in case over nude vacation photos
Abstracts: Rape victim's identity ruled matter of public concern. Indictment over rape report is dismissed. Gun permit data is personal, not outweighed by public interest in government activities
Abstracts: Raytheon to build Maverick missiles for Gulf States. JASSM cuts "catastrophic": Lockheed. Raytheon wins Army Research Lab work
Abstracts: Raytheon wins Army Research Lab work. Raytheon to work on GPS receivers. Army logistic glimpses the near future
Abstracts: Recent books from Borgo Press. Falling between two walls. Surfing the intertext
Abstracts: Recruiting Fraud. Drug flow: Orlando, San Juan reporters team up to track heroin. Trucking: licensing scam led to dangerous drivers on the highway
Abstracts: Reference library. Anadems. The reference library
Abstracts: Reformer does not have right of court access: sought court transcript to determine why defense lawyer was disqualified
Abstracts: Reinvesting nieces: Mansfield Park and the economics of endogomy. The look, the body, and the heroine: a feminist-narratological reading of 'Persuasion.'
Abstracts: Release of psychiatrists' names would invade privacy. Court denies release of course materials. State allows release of some material from teacher's letters
Abstracts: Reno riots, Chinese coverage lead to problems. Putting Food Lion in perspective. Journalists face subpoenas, contempt charges
Abstracts: Repeat problems. Police shootings. Borderworld
Abstracts: Report calls for action on government secrecy: Moynihan Commission notes three million people can classify data
Abstracts: Report details administration's increased hostility to media. Senators examine media handling of Jewell case
Abstracts: Reporter loses appeal of contempt finding: but judge rescinds order after Decker says gag not violated. American professor guilty of contempt for 'scandalizing' Singapore judiciary
Abstracts: Reporter, newspaper cited for printing file details. Public has no right of access to plea agreement that was revoked
Abstracts: Reporter protected in shield law's first test. Confidential sources & information: a practical guide to the reporter's privilege in the fifty states and D.C
Abstracts: Reporters charged, released in Bosnia, Turkey: Rohde held nine days by Serbs; Marcus acquitted of incitement. Chinese officials harass, detain American reporters, photographers
Abstracts: Reporters in California, Texas found in contempt. New shield law won't help reporters' contempt cases. Appeals court deadlock protects reporters
Abstracts: Reporters on the job continue to encounter official roadblocks. First Amendment defense disallowed in porn case
Abstracts: Reporter starts seven-month jail term over news scene incident. Journalist's conviction over removal of jet fabric upheld
Abstracts: Reporter who witnessed assault must testify. Destruction of notes usually sufficient to show actual malice. High court orders journalists to testify before grand jury
Abstracts: Reporting tool: Broadcast stories gain impact through variety of data analysis. Gaining insight into private foundations
Abstracts: Report saying doctors "butchered" women is rhetorical hyperbole: high incidence of Caesarian deliveries makes doctor's actions matter of great public concern
Abstracts: Reprinted article with additions has different meaning than original story. Generalized statements in handbill did not defame pilot
Abstracts: Researching an assassination. Investment shock: Colorado's pre-paid tuition plan secretive, misleading, bad gamble
Abstracts: Restrictive police records access policy struck down. Police recruit information found subject to state open records act
Abstracts: Retirement homes of the gods. Digital matter. Chicxulub: the smoking K-T gun?
Abstracts: Retrial on damages ordered due to confusion in state libel law. State high court affirms libel verdict over editorial
Abstracts: Revising the future in The Female Man. Media, drugs, and schizophrenia in the works of Philip K. Dick. Locating the Thing: The Antarctic as alien space in John W. Campbell's 'Who Goes There?'
Abstracts: RICO suit by Tilton, church against 'PrimeTime Live' fails. ABC, Philip Morris settle 'spiking' case. Court rules remark about church not actionable
Abstracts: Riding the dog. In the dark
Abstracts: Rights vs. rightness. Eumemics. E pluribus zero
Abstracts: Right-to-privacy legal actions: implications for reporters. It ain't about the money. Drivers' data creates controversies in courts and Congress
Abstracts: Risks and rewards: Crossing borders. Reporting 'the other': a challenge on both sides of the border. Encounter on the border
Abstracts: Roche: Debate on need for new tankers 'over'. Tanker compromise costs billions extra for need thatEs unclear. Analysis
Abstracts: Rugged domesticity: Frontier mythology in post-Armageddon science fiction by women. The South and science Fiction
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