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· 6/13/2007

In Re Venezia

Citations

  • 922 A.2d 1263
  • 191 N.J. 259
  • 2007 N.J. LEXIS 695

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding claimant, Bergen Record reporter, waived the privilege when he spoke to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, and thus could not later seek the privilege to avoid deposition testimony on the same subject matter
  • finding a reporter acts in the course of pursuing his professional activities whenever he obtains information for the purpose of disseminating it to the public
  • refusing to hold that a waiver of privilege extended beyond the specific information actually imparted
  • refusing to hold that a waiver of privilege extended beyond the specific information actually imparted
  • “publication of an article does not constitute a waiver of a reporter’s privilege to refuse to disclose ‘information obtained in the course of pursuing his professional activities’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Long, Lavecchia, Zazzali, Albin, Wallace, Rivera-Soto

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