The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear a case regarding whether an interest in protecting the confidentiality of the grand jury process outweighs a journalist's right not to disclose sources under a shield law. The case involves two county commissioners who sued for defamation based on a newspaper article that discussed the pair's grand jury testimony. The Superior Court had overturned a lower court ruling, and held that that no shield law exception existed regarding grand jury proceedings.
June 14, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case regarding whether an interest in protecting the confidentiality of the grand jury process outweighs a journalist’s right not to disclose sources under state shield laws.
The court granted allocatur Wednesday in Castellani and Corcoran v. The Scranton Times.
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