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On February 25, 2011 SMVT partners Amanda Martin and Hugh Stevens participated in a conference on “Computer Assisted Reporting” sponsored by Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. (“IRE”). Mr. Stevens joined News & Observer reporter Andy Curliss and IRE General Counsel David Smallman on a panel that discussed “Cracking Open Electronic Records – From Emails to…

Blogging, posting to social media sites such as Facebook, and scouring online sources for news have become active pastimes for many. In her talk — Social Media, Blogging and the News — Ms. Martin addressed the extent to which the First Amendment protects such practices and what new legal issues arise, including what liability may…

SMVT partner Hugh Stevens was one of Frank Statio’s guests who talked about evolving concepts of privacy, and their legal implications, on the January 26, 2011 edition of “The State of Things.” Click here to listen to the broadcast.

On October 29, 2010 SMVT attorneys Hugh Stevens, Amanda Martin and Mike Tadych filed a public records suit on behalf of eight of the firm’s media clients against four key officials of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Athletic Director Richard A. Baddour, Head Football Coach “Butch” Davis, Chancellor Holden Thorp, and Director…

In an interview with The Daily Tar Heel, SMVT partner Hugh Stevens reviewed some of the history of First Amendment issues at The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. To read the newspaper’s story, click here.

SMVT partner Hugh Stevens recently defended a Stetson University baseball player, his summer amateur team, and a Virginia non-profit “wood bat” baseball league against a for-profit North Carolina league that sought an order restraining the player from engaging in any organized or unorganized baseball activity. The local league alleged that it suffered irreparable injury after…