Edward L. Carey v. Britt Hume, Jack Anderson

U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit · Decided 1974-06-05

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McGOWAN, Circuit Judge: The troublesome legal issue of the compelled disclosure by a journalist of his sources of information gave rise to this interlocutory appeal ( 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (b)) from the District Court. It comes to us in the context of a civil action for libel, as contrasted with the criminal setting in which the Supreme Court has…

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