NMU ILLINOIS Confidentiality/Privilege Sep 14, 2000 Editor held in contempt for failing to hand over photographs An Illinois newspaper editor refused to release unpublished photographs of a crime scene, but…
Click:20 watt street light price Court cautions against subpoenas of reporters 01/12/98 FLORIDA–In mid-December a trial court in Ft. Lauderdale quashed a third-party subpoena against a local newspaper and one…
High court creates federal patient-therapist privilege 07/01/96 WASHINGTON, D.C.–Communications between a psychotherapist and a patient are protected as confidential and disclosure of such communications cannot be compelled in federal court,…
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and major news organizations are calling on the U.S. Justice Department to return secretly subpoenaed phone records of more than 100 Associated…
Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz told a federal court Tuesday that protecting the confidentiality of his sources is "absolutely essential" to his ability to do his job.Click Here: Italy Football…
Two government defendants in a civil rights lawsuit yesterday dropped a subpoena for unedited video footage of a reporter’s interview with the plaintiff in the case. Early in July 2010,…
CBS does not have to hand over the unaired footage of a 60 Minutes interview witha Marinewho is being investigatedon several charges related to the 2005 deaths in Haditha, Iraq,…
ยท Story link The Washington state Senate overwhelmingly passed a reporter-source shield bill. The vote was 41-7. The bill would would grant reporters absolute privilege for protecting confidential sources –…