Project Veritas Action Fund v. Rollins

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Case Number:

1:16-cv-10462

Court:

Massachusetts

Nature of Suit:

Constitutional - State Statute

Judge:

Patti B. Saris

Firms

  1. December 10, 2018

    Mass. Can't Ban Secret Recording Of Officials, Police

    A blanket ban on secret audio recording in Massachusetts is unconstitutional when the person being recorded is a government official or a police officer performing their duties in public, a federal judge ruled Monday, granting a partial win to a conservative provocateur journalist and two activists in two cases.

  2. March 24, 2017

    Judge Won't Halt Mass. Ban On Secret Recordings

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday declined to halt the state's blanket ban on surreptitious recording but didn't entirely toss a challenge to the statute either, saying a conservative provocateur journalist has standing to claim that the prohibition against recording private individuals violates the First Amendment.

  3. November 04, 2016

    Mass. Secret Recording Ban Unconstitutional, Journalist Says

    A conservative provocateur journalist whose scoops have come from secretly filming people on Friday asked a Massachusetts federal judge to halt the state's blanket ban on surreptitious recording, saying that it violates the First Amendment.