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Posts on ‘October 26th, 2007’

Shield laws, diffuse interests, and collective action

Particularly in the past few years, American journalists have been making noise about the need for a federal shield law. Currently, 33 states plus D.C. have laws to protect journalists from having to reveal privileged source information in court; the federal government has no such law. A handful of recent high-profile cases, such as that [...]

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