Flores v. Cooper Tire and Rubber Co.

OPINION

PORTLEY, Judge.

¶ 1 Cooper Tire and Rubber Company (“Cooper”) challenges the superior court’s *55ruling that Abbie Boudreau (“Boudreau”), a reporter for Scripps-Howard Broadcasting, dba KNXV-TV (“KNXV”), did not breach the court’s confidentiality order when the television station broadcast her story about the safety of Cooper’s tires. In resolving this appeal, we address three issues: (1) whether the court properly balanced the reporter-informant privilege and Cooper’s property interests when it fashioned an ex parte, in camera procedure to determine if Boudreau obtained information about…