Legal Opinion
Application of Cepeda
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 14, 1964PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TENNEY, District Judge.
Plaintiff Cepeda, petitioner, moves herein for an order, pursuant to Rule 37(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, directing deponent Timothy Co-hane (hereinafter referred to as “Co-hane”) to answer certain questions previously put during the course of a deposition. Cohane, in refusing to answer the aforesaid questions, asserted an alleged privilege possessed by newspapermen and those similarly situated, protecting them from the need to reveal the sources of their information.
Briefly stated, this suit for libel was brought by Orlando Cepeda, a baseball player for…
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3Cited by24 opinions
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