Media and First Amendment Practice

Daughtry & Jordan’s Media and First Amendment Practice provides a full range of services to clients in both traditional media (such as broadcast and print) and new media businesses requiring assistance on First Amendment matters. Our extensive practice includes both litigation and counseling on a wide variety of media law and First Amendment issues, including defamation, privacy, newsgathering, Freedom of Information Act, Texas Public Information Act, challenges to governmental and private regulations of speech, commercial speech, Internet, e-commerce advertising, and copyright.

We regularly advise the Firm’s business clients on commercial disputes raising these types of issues. We also perform appellate work on these issues of vital importance. Indeed, we have been directly involved in some prominent First Amendment appellate matters in recent years.

Our work in this area includes:

• Defense of libel and invasion of privacy cases.
• Representation in litigated matters involving First Amendment and newsgathering issues, including access to judicial proceedings and records, resistance to subpoenas served upon members of the media, intrusions into the newsgathering process, prior restraints and Freedom of Information Act proceedings.
• Counseling on non-litigation media matters, including pre-publication advice on defamation and privacy issues for newpapers, newsgathering, and newsroom presentations on preventive libel and privacy law.
• Litigating cases involving Open Meetings and Open Record concerns.

We represent a wide variety of clients confronting issues within the gamut of our practice. We are also regularly hired by several different insurance companies, to litigate these types of issues for their insureds.