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Topic: reporter's privilege

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Thursday, 7/2, 08:38 PM

Supreme Court Lets an $800-a-Day Fine Stand Against a Reporter Protecting Sources

  • The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to halt a mounting $800-a-day contempt fine against the veteran journalist Catherine Herridge, who has refused to identify the confidential sources behind her reporting.
  • The order leaves a lower court's finding in place and hands press-freedom advocates a setback, in a country that still has no federal shield law for reporters.

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