The big media company Hearst says it has never had more First Amendment lawsuits in courtrooms around the country than it does now.
During 2009, the Associated Press was party to 40 lawsuits (four years earlier it was the low 30s) and the news agency appealed more than 40 denied FOIA. requests. Nearly 30 have been resolved, 24 successfully including one about the cash-for-clunkers program. It resulted in 13,000 pages being released and posted on the Web.
Another big media company, Hearst, says it had 18 litigations under way — its most ever.
Read more at the New York Times.
