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· 8/8/2003

Michael McKevitt v. Abdon Pallasch

Citations

  • 339 F.3d 530
  • 61 Fed. R. Serv. 1398
  • 31 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 2141
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 16310

How courts have described this case

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

  • the tape recordings of key prosecution witness against the party seeking their production
  • “rather than speaking of privilege, courts should simply make sure that a subpoena duces tecum directed to the media, like any other subpoena duces tecum, is reasonable in the circumstances, which is the general criterion for judicial review of subpoenas”
  • the Illinois reporter’s privilege is inapplicable in federal question cases
  • string cite unaccompanied by explanation not sufficient to preserve argument
  • enforcing subpoena against third- party journalists
  • enforcing subpoena against third-party journalists

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Posner, Manion, Rovner

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