{"id":1413,"date":"2026-04-30T19:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:43:35","slug":"judge-refuses-to-unseal-das-search-warrant-on-city-of-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/judge-refuses-to-unseal-das-search-warrant-on-city-of-pittsburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge refuses to unseal DA\u2019s search warrant on City of Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An April 29, 2026, TribLive article, &#8220;Judge refuses to unseal DA&#8217;s search warrant on City of Pittsburgh,&#8221; by Paula Reed Ward, quotes Adam Tragone, Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic Local Journalism Attorney, who brought a motion to unseal a search warrant and accompanying affidavit served on the City of Pittsburgh, on behalf of Michael Wereschagin, an editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A link to the full article, plus a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article and a Tribune-Review editorial, are below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/local\/judge-refuses-to-unseal-das-search-warrant-on-city-of-pittsburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Judge refuses to unseal DA&#8217;s search warrant on City of Pittsburgh,&#8221; TribLive<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.post-gazette.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics-local%2F2026%2F04%2F29%2Fpittsburgh-city-search-warrant%2Fstories%2F202604260128&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cbab394%40cornell.edu%7C3866bdc0b2844f32d35508dea6bdb3f3%7C5d7e43661b9b45cf8e79b14b27df46e1%7C0%7C0%7C639131530856661442%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=fkKOca3UmDrZtkSQgLlulydlxwO9UwZYz7VlNGdVxkA%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Search warrants served on city of Pittsburgh to remain sealed over retaliation fears,&#8221; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/opinion\/editorial-if-zappala-would-just-say-it-why-seal-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Editorial: If Zappala would just say it, why seal it?&#8221; Tribune-Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An April 29, 2026, TribLive article, &#8220;Judge refuses to unseal DA&#8217;s search warrant on City of Pittsburgh,&#8221; by Paula Reed Ward, quotes Adam Tragone, Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic Local Journalism Attorney, who brought a motion to unseal a search warrant and accompanying affidavit served on the City of Pittsburgh, on behalf of Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}