Altemose Const. Co. v. BLDG. & CONST. TRADES COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA

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• no “particularized need” and no demonstration that the information could not be secured from alternative sources
• “[T]his qualified privilege can even apply when the news source and, perhaps a portion of the withheld writing, are not confidential”
• Where defendant in federal civil action served program manager of television station with subpoena duces tecum, court quashes subpoena, holding, per Taylor, that all sources, including both persons and documents, are privileged, without reference to their confidentiality
• “Such a ease-by-case analysis is mandated even more in civil cases than in criminal cases, for in the former the public’s interest in casting a protective shroud over the newsmen’s sources and information warrants an even greater weight than in the latter.”

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