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Title: Matter Richard Beach v. Donald J. Shanley
Author : Court of Appeals of New York
Release Date : January 10, 1984
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 72 KB

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In enacting the so-called "Shield Law," the Legislature expressed a policy according reporters strong protection against compulsory disclosure of their sources or information obtained in the news-gathering process. As the statute is framed, the protection is afforded notwithstanding that the information concerns criminal activity and, indeed, even when revealing the information to the reporter might itself be a criminal act. Consequently, in the