Is Your Internship Legal?
With the school year wrapping up, another Internship season is upon us. So I thought it might be worth re-hashing an issue that I posted on my personal blog a couple of months ago about labor laws and...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Finds in Favor of Funeral Protesters, Protecting Speech
By Mickey H. Osterreicher, NPPA General Counsel This morning the U.S. Supreme Court issued an 8-1 decision in Snyder v. Phelps, holding that the First Amendment shields Westboro Baptist church...
View ArticleCity of Ft. Lauderdale Agrees to Uphold Right to Take Pictures in Public
The City of Ft. Lauderdale agreed on Monday not to interfere with photographers taking pictures near the set of the film “Rock of Ages.” At an emergency hearing in state court, the NPPA joined the...
View ArticleSeventh Circuit Rules: States May Restrict Broadcasting of Publicly Sponsored...
In a long awaited ruling, the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday held that the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) was within its rights to grant exclusive broadcast rights to a private...
View ArticleMedia Groups Join NPPA to Protest Police Mistreatment of Press During NYC –...
New York – The National Press Photographers Association was joined by several media organizations and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in a letter to the NYPD Deputy Commissioner of...
View ArticleUpdate: NYPD to Remind Officers of Media’s Rights at 10 Consecutive Roll Calls
After meeting on Wednesday with several media attorneys, including NPPA general counsel Mickey Osterreicher, NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly ordered that a “Finest” message be disseminated reminding...
View ArticleNinth Circuit: Photojournalist’s Access is a “Fundamental Constitutional Right”
In another victory for photographers, the NPPA is applauding a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which held that restrictions on a photojournalists’ access to a horse roundup...
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