Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier v. Hawkeye Community College

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• finding that a college was not entitled to discover the newspaper's confidential sources based upon the newspaper's suit to enforce the Open Meetings Law
• finding that a college was not entitled to discover the newspaper’s confidential sources based upon the newspaper’s suit to enforce the Open Meetings Law
• “[A] waiver of the [reporter’s] privilege has most often been found where the plaintiff put the sought-after information into issue in the litigation and then attempted to prevent its disclosure by invoking the shield of privilege.”
• in discussing the reporter’s privilege, noting that “waiver of the privilege has most often been found where the plaintiff put the sought-after information into issue in the litigation and then attempted to prevent its disclosure by invoking the shield of privilege.”

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