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Alvarez v. Superior Ct. (San Jose Mercury News, Inc.)

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Media Law
The First Amendment right of access to certain judicial proceedings does not extend to post-indictment grand jury transcripts at a Penal Code section...

Compuware Corp. v. Moody's Inv. Servs., Inc.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
In a breach of contract and defamation action brought by a company against a financial publisher that analyzed and rated plaintiff, summary judgment...

Wilcher v. City of Akron

Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Media Law
In an action brought by a producer of public access programming alleging that Time Warner Cable rules for submitting public access programs violate...

Time Warner Cable, Inc. v. DIRECTV, Inc.

Communications Law, Cyberspace Law, Entertainment Law, False Advertising, Media Law
Order preliminarily enjoining DirecTV from disseminating, in any market in which Time Warner Cable provides cable service, certain television...

Hall v. Time Warner, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
In case involving a former housekeeper of Marlon Brando's who was named in his will who sued a reporter for trespass and invasion of privacy, denial...

Lane v. Simon

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Media Law
In a suit by former editors of a daily newspaper affiliated with Kansas State University against school administrators alleging that the removal of...

Regency Outdoor Adver., Inc. v. City of W. Hollywood

Government Law, Media Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Denial of petition for writ of mandate directing defendant city to invalidate a zoning amendment as the city did not review the amendment's...

Alvarado v. KOB-TV, L.L.C.

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
In a suit brought by two former undercover police officers against a television station for broadcasting their identities and their undercover status...

Covenant Media of S.C. v. City of N. Charleston

Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Media Law
In civil rights suit brought by billboard operator challenging constitutionality of sign regulation, summary judgment for defendant city is affirmed...

Greenberg v. National Geographic Soc'y

Copyright, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Media Law
In suit alleging infringement of plaintiff's copyrights in photographs, which originally ran in defendants' magazine, when defendants released a...