Wen Ho Lee v. Department of Justice, Jeff Gerth

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the fact that the First Amendment privilege is not absolute “does not leave journalists without protection”
• noting that “this argument fails both because each [journalist] may have different sources and because such an argument could be used to exclude all journalists’ testimony whenever there is a leak to more than one person”
• \ Zerilli set out two guidelines to determine when a plaintiff may compel a non-party journalist to testify to the identity of his confidential sources.\
• “Zerilli, like Carey, made it plain that any such privilege is qualified, not absolute.”

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