Court Fight Brews Over Unsealing iPhone Records

News organizations, including the Associated Press, Bloomberg, Wired and the L.A. Times, have asked the courts to unseal the police affidavit used to obtain a search warrant in the prototype iPhone case.

Making those documents public could reveal whether prosecutors and Superior Court Judge Clifford Cretan considered whether journalist shield laws applied to the evening raid of Jason Chen's home last month and whether they viewed bloggers working for Gizmodo parent company Gawker Media as members of a legitimate media organization.

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