In 2026, three news organizations sued the White House. Their dispute turns in part on the legal character of the White House press area. From the language of public trust in Hague in 1939 to Perry's three-category framework in 1983, the public forum doctrine defines how far the government can regulate expression within the spaces it controls.
In September 2026, Trump barred CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House over “fake news.” The three organizations sued. Can a president revoke press credentials because he dislikes the coverage? The story begins with a journalist denied a White House pass half a century earlier.
In 1987, Zhu Jiacheng and Zhu Gongbao, a farmer father and son from Lianshui, Jiangsu, refused to accept the administrative detention imposed on them by the public security authorities and sued the Lianshui County Public Security Bureau in court. The Lianshui County court ultimately revoked the police penalty ruling, making this the first case, before the Administrative Litigation Law was enacted, in which a court ruled against the public security authorities. This article traces the full course of the case.
In August 1988, a cinema in Cangnan County, Zhejiang, became a temporary courtroom where farmer Bao Zhengzhao and his family sued the county government. The dispute began with the partial demolition of a house beside a river embankment: why did a town construction office’s approval fail to protect it from an order to clear flood-control obstructions? Before China had a unified Administrative Litigation Law, how did the courts accept, hear, and decide this case? Beginning with the Bao family’s defeat, this episode traces the development of administrative litigation from scattered judicial practice to unified legislation and asks what it meant to bring the government into court.
Beginning with China’s two nationwide Strike Hard campaigns, this article traces the reconstruction, adjustment, and development of criminal law and criminal procedure after reform and opening.