By Jan Wolfe

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Monday will hear oral arguments in the Associated Press’s battle with President Donald Trump over access to presidential events, a major press-freedom case.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is considering the Trump administration’s appeal of an April ruling that it unlawfully retaliated against the AP because it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico by President Trump’s preferred name for it: the Gulf of America.

In the April ruling, U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden said the AP was entitled to a preliminary injunction in its favor. McFadden, a Trump-appointed judge, ordered the White House to immediately let Associated Press journalists return to the Oval Office and other spaces to cover news events.

The D.C. Circ

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