Legal Opinion
In Re Grand Jury Subpoena Dated January 4, 1984
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided April 5, 1984No. CV-84-0336PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM and ORDER
WEINSTEIN, Chief Judge:
In this case of apparent first impression, Mr. Mario Brajuha a graduate student at the State University, Stoney-brook, Long Island, moves to quash a grand jury subpoena directing him to produce a journal he kept in preparation for his doctoral dissertation. Although a scholar does not have an absolute right to withhold a journal of his conversations with informants and of his impressions, he has a limited federal common law privilege to do so. Because the government has not shown any substantial need for the journal, the motion to quash must be…
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