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Bill Comes Due for Ten Years of Fighting by California Judicial Council Against First Amendment Access


California’s court bureaucracy used public funds and a bagful of tricks to fight press access before losing on a legal slam-dunk last month. This news service is now asking for the legal fees it racked up on the long road to vindicating a press tradition in the courts of America.
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California. (Courthouse News photo / Bill Girdner)
LOS ANGELES (CN) After ten years of legal trench warfare between the court bureaucracy of California and this news service, the First Amendment right to see new court filings upon receipt has been established and the bill has come due. ....

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