Flynt, Larry v. Rumsfeld, Donald H.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a journalist has no constitutional right to be actively embedded in military units
• recognizing that a restriction on media’s right of access is permitted if it is a reasonable time, place, and manner restriction
• finding injury- in-fact where plaintiffs “asked for immediate access to accompany U.S. troops in combat, which they contend is their constitutional right, and that access was not granted”
• appellants had standing where they sought and were denied access to accompany U.S. troops in combat
• “In order to test the ripeness and justiciability of the claims, we again assume that they are otherwise valid.”
• “In order to test the . . . justiciability of [plaintiff's] claims, we ... assume that they are otherwise valid.”

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