Judy Garland v. Marie Torre

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• Constitution does not protect a reporter for refusing to testify in a deposition when the question asked goes “to the heart of the plaintiff’s claim”
• identity of source went to heart of libel claim
• identity of source went to heart of libel claim
• cited with approval by Branzburg, 408 U.S. at 685–86, and pointing out that the “concept that it is the duty of a witness to testify in a court of law [even for civil suits] has roots fully as deep in our history as does the guarantee of [free speech and] a free press”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).