Case ID: ga_259/html/0795-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

S89A0433.
    HOWARD v. SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN, INC. et al.
    (387 SE2d 332)
   Weltner, Justice.

A newspaper reporter refused to answer certain questions propounded to her during a deposition taken in the course of civil litigation. Her refusal was based upon her assertion of a purported “qualified reporter’s privilege.”

The trial court held: “Georgia has no statutory qualified reporter’s privilege. . . . [She] has no qualified reporter’s privilege under the law of this state.”

Decided January 11, 1990

Reconsideration denied February 6, 1990.

Hull, Towill, Norman & Barrett, David E. Hudson, James B. Ellington, for appellant.

Ranitz, Mahoney, Forbes & Coolidge, Morton G. Forbes, Catherine M. Bowman, Middleton & Anderson, Susan E. Shelley, Neely & Player, Taylor Tapley Daly, Leigh M. Wilco, for appellees.

Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, Terrence B. Adamson, Peter C. Can-field, Carolyn Y. Forrest, amicus curiae.

This holding was correct. Vaughn v. State, 259 Ga. 325 (381 SE2d 30) (1989).

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.