Governments are increasingly imposing gag rules on their employees that prohibit employees from speaking to journalists and providing information only through a public information office. With their careers at stake, employees have little incentive to defend their rights to speak, leaving the public blind to what the government is doing beyond the information officially approved by press secretaries. This panel will discuss the legal theories to challenge a journalist against such gag rules, the procedural obstacles that such a case would face, as well as the legal research and factual development that has already been conducted on the subject. Opportunities for collaboration between clinics to bring one or more test cases are being explored. Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. Prior to this position, he was founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law from 2008 to 2017. Previously, he was alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University from 2004 to 2008 and Professor at the University of Southern California School of Law from 1983 to 2004, including Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics and Political Science. From 1980 to 1983, he was an assistant professor at DePaul College of Law. He is the author of fourteen books, including leading casebooks and treatises on constitutional law, criminal procedure and federal justice.
He is also the author of more than 200 legal journal articles. He writes articles for the opinion section of the Los Angeles Times and regularly writes columns for the Sacramento Bee, ABA Journal, and The Daily Journal, as well as frequent commentary in newspapers across the country. He often pleads on appeal, including before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2016, he was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017, National Jurist Magazine again named Dean Chemerinsky the most influential person in legal education in the United States. In January 2021, he was appointed President-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools. The CAA`s 10 Rules of Engagement were first published as a three-part series in the October, November and December issues of Exceptional Parent in 1999. The rules are supported by evidence, including performance data from AAC speakers. These rules form the basis of the resources, services and advocacy efforts of the AAC Institute and the ICAN™ Talk Clinic. The following content briefly discusses the importance of each rule and can be used as a guide to evaluate the AAC system, services, and support a person receives. Unless otherwise specified by the event teams or management, the American Airlines Center welcomes guests who bring small signs, banners, posters, and flags into the building to show fan support during events.
The following rules apply to these points: Mickey Osterreicher is of Counsel of Finnerty Osterreicher & Abdulla and acts as General Counsel of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). He is an award-winning visual journalist with over fifty years of experience in printing and broadcasting and has been an Assistant Reserve Sheriff in the Erie County Sheriff`s Office (ECSO) since 1976. His work has been published in publications such as the New York Times, Time, Newsweek and USA Today, as well as in ABC World News Tonight, Nightline, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News and ESPN. He has been actively involved in areas such as courtroom cameras, the federal shield law, media access, public photography, the use of drones to collect information, and copyright infringement. He writes regularly for the Media Law Resource Center and NPPA magazine, as well as other online publications, and has been cited in national news on these topics. Osterreicher was a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Advisory Committee on Public Police Registration and helped develop the manuals and provide training on the subject. He has also presented similar programs and trainings for journalists and law enforcement agencies across the country for more than a decade. He was Associate Professor of Photojournalism at SUNY in Buffalo and Associate Professor of Media and Law at the University at Buffalo School of Law. The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) honored him in 2015 as a Fellow of the Society, the society`s highest professional distinction for his outstanding contributions to the profession. In 2017, he was named Reserve Assistant of the Year by ECSO and the Erie County Deputy Sheriff`s Badge and Shield Club. In 2021, he was inducted into the Buffalo Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Osterreicher graduated from SUNY at Buffalo in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science in Photojournalism/Photography and received his Juris Doctor, laude, from the University of Buffalo School of Law in 1998.
He holds a license in New York State and in several federal jurisdictions across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Face masks are not mandatory, but are highly recommended. The American Airlines Center offers a wide variety of food and drinks throughout the property. You are not allowed to bring food or beverages to the American Airlines Center. Containers such as bottles, cans, thermos bottles or plastic coolers are not allowed for the safety and protection of our customers. Guests with specific/special dietary needs due to medical or religious conditions should visit our dealership page for more details or contact customer service to discuss available meal options. Heather E. Murray is the Lead Attorney of the Local Journalism Project at the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic.
In addition to co-head of the clinic, she provides pro bono legal advice to journalists and represents them in seeking access to public records and legal proceedings, as well as defending the First Amendment and news-gathering rights.