Legal Opinion
Gill v. Gulfstream Park Racing Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 7, 2005No. 04-1944PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This case raises the question of recognition of an informant’s privilege and the associated public interests which underlie the privilege. The issue comes to us on arguments from a third-party investigative arm of an association of private race tracks, that the district court, under Fed. R. Civ. R. 26, erred in failing to recognize those interests when it ordered disclosure of the identities of informants who told of illegal activities by the plaintiff. We vacate the order and remand.
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Michael J. Gill, an owner of thoroughbred race horses, filed a false light defamation…
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