Legal Opinion
Gagnon v. District Court in & for the County of Fremont
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided July 6, 1981No. 81SA71PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HODGES, Chief Justice.
In this original proceeding we issued a rule to show cause why an order of the respondent district court compelling the disclosure of a newspaper reporter’s confidential source and the production of documents from that source should not be reversed. From our review of the record we conclude that the order was not an abuse of discretion. We therefore discharge the rule.
On August 5, 1980, a news article appeared in the Pueblo Chieftain newspaper concerning the operation of the First National Bank of Florence. Included in the article were the following paragraphs:
“Among the…
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