Legal Opinion
Michael McKevitt v. Abdon Pallasch
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 8, 2003No. 03-2753, 03-2754PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Michael McKevitt is being prosecuted in Ireland for membership in a banned organization and directing terrorism. He asked the district court for an order pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782 to produce tape recordings that he thinks will be useful to him in the cross-examination of David Rupert, who according to McKevitt’s motion is the key witness for the prosecution. The district court obliged. Its order is directed against a group of journalists who have a contract to write Rupert’s biography and who in the course of their research for the biography interviewed him; the tape…
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