First Circuit· 6/21/2004

In Re Special Proceedings

Citations

373 F.3d 37
32 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1897
64 Fed. R. Serv. 768
2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 12144
2004 WL 1380007

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holding that the appointment of a special prosecutor was appropriate where the government attorneys were the possible source of the leak of information underlying the criminal contempt prosecution
holding “the disclosure of a reporter’s confidential sources may not be compelled unless directly relevant to a nonfrivolous claim or inquiry undertaken in good faith”
acknowledging First Circuit precedents as “in principle somewhat more protective” than Branzburg First Amendment protections
reading Branzburg to “flatly reject[] any notion of a general-purpose reporter’s privilege for confidential sources, whether by virtue of the First Amendment or of a newly hewn common law privilege”
upholding district court’s decision to appoint non-government attorney under Fed. R. Crim. P. 42(a)(2
upholding district court’s decision to appoint non-government attorney under Fed. R. Crim. P. 42(a)(2

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Judges: Boudin, Lipez, Howard

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