Legal Opinion
Apicella v. McNeil Laboratories, Inc.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided February 24, 1975No. 74 C 635PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM and ORDER
WEINSTEIN, District Judge.
The discovery issue now presented is another example of the tension between the needs of news reporters in protecting confidential sources and of the public in providing effective justice. For the reasons indicated below, under the special circumstances now presented, we find the cost of requiring disclosure overbalances the speculative losses to a just determination of the facts in this litigation.
I. FACTS
Plaintiffs Vincent and Josephine Apicella are suing McNeil Laboratories, manufacturer of the drug Innovar. On August 2, 1972, Mr. Apicella was…
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