MATTER OF BEACH v. Shanley
New York Court of Appeals
POINTS OF COUNSEL I. Section 79-h of the Civil Rights Law permits reporter Beach, to withhold the identity of his news source from the Grand Jury under the facts of the instant case, (jHennigan v Buffalo Courier Express Co., 85 AD2d 924; Greenburg v CBS Inc., 69 AD2d 693; People [Fischer] Dan, 41 AD2d 687, 32 NY2d 613; People v Monroe, 82 Mise 2d 850; Hammelburger v Foursom Inn Corp., 54 NY2d 580; Burns Jackson Miller Summit & Spitzer v Lindner, 59 NY2d 314; People v…
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POINTS OF COUNSEL I. Section 79-h of the Civil Rights Law permits reporter Beach, to withhold the identity of his news source from the Grand Jury under the facts of the instant case, (jHennigan v Buffalo Courier Express Co., 85 AD2d 924; Greenburg v CBS Inc., 69 AD2d 693; People [Fischer] Dan, 41 AD2d 687, 32 NY2d 613; People v Monroe, 82 Mise 2d 850; Hammelburger v Foursom Inn Corp., 54 NY2d 580; Burns Jackson Miller Summit & Spitzer v Lindner, 59 NY2d 314; People v lannaccone, 112 Mise 2d 1057; People v Graham, 55 NY2d 144; Oak Beach Inn Corp. v Babylon Beacon, 92 AD2d 102; Wilkins v Kalla,…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Cooke.
In enacting the so-called “Shield Law,” the Legislature expressed a policy according reporters strong protection against compulsory disclosure of their sources or information obtained in the news-gathering process. As the statute is framed, the protection is afforded notwithstanding that the information concerns criminal activity and, indeed, even when revealing the information to the reporter might itself be a criminal act. Consequently, in the *246circumstances here, a subpoena requiring a television reporter to appear before a grand jury investigating the…
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- Matter of Hirshfield v. CraigNew York Court of Appeals · 1924
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