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March 16, 2022In Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death Cover-Up Public Records Act Case, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and First Amendment Coalition Tell Appellate Court That University of California Seeks ‘to Chill Members of the Public, Including Journalists’
March 24, 2022The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the First Amendment Coalition have filed an amicus curiae, or “friend of the court,” brief in response to the appeal to a California appellate court by the losing side in the California Public Records Act case Muchnick v. UC Regents.
The lower Superior Court had ruled Irvin Muchnick the prevailing party on the basis of having catalyzed the production of more than 700 pages of previously withheld university documents relating to the cover-up of the circumstances of the 2014 conditioning drill death of UC Berkeley football player Ted Agu.
Excerpts and a link to the full brief will be published here shortly.