Castellani v. Scranton Times, L.P.

OPINION

Chief Justice CASTILLE.

Pennsylvania’s Shield Law, 42 Pa.C.S. § 5942, protects a newspaper’s source of information from compelled disclosure. *287With the present appeal, appellants urge this Court to recognize a non-textual “crime-fraud” exception to the Shield Law that would permit compelled disclosure of a newspaper’s source if the communication between the newspaper reporter and the source itself constituted a criminal act. For the following reasons, we decline to adopt any such exception and affirm the Superior Court’s reversal of the trial court’s order compelling disclosure of the…