In the Matter of Paul Pappas

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• applying federal law to find no constitutional newsman’s privilege to refuse to testify before the grand juty
• approving occasional disregard of corporate fiction “in order to prevent gross inequity”
• judge must supervise grand jury proceedings “to prevent oppressive, unnecessary, irrelevant, and other improper inquiry and investigation”
• the reporter witnessed criminal acts committed by members of the Black Panthers during a period of civil disorder in New Bedford, Massachusetts
• the reporter witnessed criminal acts committed by members of the Black Panthers during a period of civil disorder in New Bedford, Massachusetts
• court will create privilege only when harm done to society by suppression of evidence outweighed by “benefits to society in general accruing from the preservation of a confidential relationship”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).