Legal Opinion
Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier v. Hawkeye Community College
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided June 12, 2002No. 00-1585PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STREIT, Justice.
A local community college wants newspaper editors to tell who ratted them out. The editors stand firm and would be solaced by the words of a past newsperson:
If your editorial writer ... “takes the fence,” thinking of the dangers of antagonizing somebody or other, including the publisher’s wife, he can’t write anything worth reading and it is not worth while hiring him
H.L. Mencken, A Gang of Pecksniffs 199 (Theo Lippman Jr. ed., Arlington House, 1975).
The Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier filed a lawsuit against Hawkeye Community College for alleged violations of the Open Meetings…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- United States v. NixonSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- United States v. Cuthbertson, Gerald M. Appeal of Cbs Inc., Third Party WitnessCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1980
- Edward L. Carey v. Britt Hume, Jack AndersonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1974
- Graber v. City of AnkenySupreme Court of Iowa · 2000
- State v. MagheeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1997
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