Hatchard v. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the purpose of the Pennsylvania Shield Law is not furthered by protecting from discovery information in the possession of the media where disclosure would not reveal a confidential source
• obvious purpose of Shield Law is to permit free flow of information to news media
• although 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 5942 provides absolute privilege of confidential communication between media and informant, protection not attaching to non-confidential material in defamation case
• obvious purpose of Shield Law is to permit free flow of information to news media
• although 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 5942 provides absolute privilege of confidential communication between media and informant, protection not attaching to non-confidential material in defamation case
• regarding continuing viability of Taylor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).