Legal updates include successes and setbacks
On June 23, the Standing Committee at the Senate Gallery denied SCOTUSblog’s appeal for receiving credentials. ONA had joined a May 22 letter drafted by the Reporters Committee in defense of SCOTUSblog’s application, urging a reconsideration of its denial.
 Last week, the Supreme Court ruled against warrantless searches of cell phones, agreeing with an argument in a March 10 brief ONA joined with 13 other media organizations that such a search would violate the First and Fifth Amendments. “It is essential for the Court to make clear that a search warrant is required in cases like these to prevent changing technology from eroding our most basic rights.”
ONA and 15 other news organizations joined a brief filed by The Reporters Committee to argue that Idaho’s “ag gag” statute weakens food safety guarantees at the same time that it stifles free speech. Journalists’ investigations into meat-processing facilities have long been credited with advancing the safety of the food the public consumes.
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ONA Weekly No. 14
As ONA grew from an upstart group of web pioneers to more than 2,500 members, our General Counsel Jon Hart was there, advising every Board and three executive directors during a transformative era for media. 
