UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

August Term, 2022

(Argued: April 10, 2023 Decided: March 11, 2025)

Docket No. 21-3098 _____________________________________

COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE; VERMONT PRESS ASSOCIATION, INC.; NEW ENGLAND FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION; GRAY MEDIA GROUP, INC., DBA WCAX-TV; GANNETT VERMONT PUBLISHING, INC., DBA Burlington Free Press; SAMPLE NEWS GROUP, LLC, DBA Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, DBA Rutland Herald; VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST, LTD.; VTDIGGER, a project of Vermont Journalism Trust, Ltd.; DA CAPO PUBLISHING, INC., DBA Seven Days; VERMONT COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER GROUP, LLC, DBA Stowe Reporter, News & Citizen, South Burlington Other Paper, Shelburne News, and The Citizen,

Plaintiff-Appellees,

v. TERI CORSONES, in her official capacity as the State Court Administrator of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont; AMANDA STITES, in her official capacity as Clerk of Court for Addison,