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Who is Deep Throat?
In 2005, this person with a pornographic sounding name but a different connotation was identified after 30 years of being protected.
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False.
True or false: a federal shield law protecting reporter's privilege exists in the United States.
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They might not be able to get stories without them
What is one of the reasons that confidential sources are necessary for journalists?
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What is quash?
Sounds like a familiar vegetable and is a motion to remove a subpoena
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What is subpoena?
This word describes a court order given to an individual to appear before a body at a particular time to give testimony.
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What is the Sixth Amendment?
In criminal cases, this is the constitutional amendment that is often balanced against reporter's privilege.
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What are shield laws?
A reporter might go running through a FIELD of daisies when they find this law protects them from revealing sources.
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1. “The information had been sought elsewhere” 2. “the information could not be obtained from other sources” 3. “The information was clearly relevant to the case” (pg 359 in Overbeck)
What is one of the three requirements needed before a reporter has to give information that is confidential?
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Who is Valerie Plame?
This is the name of the undercover CIA operative whose identity was revealed by Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper, both of whom were subpoenaed and forced to testify in front of a grand jury in 2005
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What is contempt?
One definition of this word is "strong dislike." The legal definition is more complex, and comes in three varieties.
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What is civil?
Federal courts are more likely to recognize a privilege for journalists in these types of proceedings.
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What is Idaho?
As opposed to more liberal states like California, this state's supreme court refused to recognize any First Amendment privilege for journalists in the 1977 case Caldero v. Tribune Publishing.
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Who is Justice Potter Stewart?
This Supreme Court Justice who shares a name with "The Boy Who Lived" established the three-part test for qualified journalist's privilege in 1972.
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What is a grand jury?
This is the kind of jury that resides over criminal cases such as Branzburg v. Hayes (1972).
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Who is Josh Wolf?
This is the "non-traditional" journalist who was imprisoned for 226 days in 2005 after refusing to hand over a tape of an anarchist protest in San Francisco.
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