In a judgment on a test case involving BSkyB and the suspected leaking of highly sensitive information from meetings of the Cobra cabinet security committee, the judges unanimously dismissed a Metropolitan police request for media material.
Standing 4 feet tall and weighing 50 pounds, Leiby had joined a rare universe of people even before the police issued an R.M.A. — police jargon for "request for media attention" — in the case on July 12. Leiby was a child, under 10 years old, missing in New York City.
The Russian government is hoping the IPO will make the exchange more attractive to big domestic companies, many of which are part-listed on foreign stockmarkets.A judge in London rejected a request for media anonymity from a group of bankers at Barclays whose names have been submitted to regulators investigating the LIBOR rate-fixing scandal.
Now organizers of Fashion Week typically receive 3,000 requests for media credentials each season.
The guidelines for such subpoenas, first enacted in 1972, require that requests for media information be narrow.
He is living in Home Office accommodation near Heathrow, having claimed asylum, and has been indundated with offers of help and requests for media interviews.
Ron LaBrec, a Coast Guard spokesman, said that about a week into the cleanup response, the Coast Guard started enforcing a policy that prohibits news media from accompanying candidates for public office on visits to government facilities, "to help manage the large number of requests for media embeds and visits by elected officials".
Jimmy Thoronka has been inundated with offers of help from Guardian readers and requests for media interviews since the first report four days ago that the athlete had been found starving and homeless in London after coming to Britain for last summer's Commonwealth Games.
Officials running the D-notice system told The Observer they did not believe the notice would have been issued to the Surrey Comet, but revealed that some records concerning official requests for media blackouts during that time period had been destroyed.
On Wednesday I headed off to TV Centre to read the news on Radio 4, and opened my emails to find more than 20 requests for media appearances – the Jeremy Vine Show on Radio 2, BBC TV Breakfast, the Daily Mail asking me to ghost-write a column, the Telegraph asking for a quote and Radio Coventry, quite determined to have me as a live guest.
In addition, there have been a reported 15,000 requests for media passes, with most journalists not finding out until Thursday whether they will be accredited.
