Legal Opinion
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission v. National Football League
District Court, C.D. California
Decided January 5, 1981No. 78-3523-HPPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PREGERSON, Circuit Judge, Sitting by Designation.
This matter is before the court on motions by Melvin Durslag, a sports columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and Scot J. Paltrow, an investigative reporter, also with the Herald Examiner, for protective orders and to quash subpoenas duces tecum served on them by the National Football League (“NFL”). Having considered the affidavits, the memoranda of law, and the oral argument of counsel, the court concludes that the motion to quash the subpoenas should be granted.
The subpoenas, dated December 15, 1980, required Durslag and Paltrow to…
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