Case Name: HOWARD v. SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN, INC. et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1990-01-11
Citations: 259 Ga. 795
Docket Number: S89A0433
Parties: HOWARD v. SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN, INC. et al.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 259
Pages: 795–796

Head Matter:
S89A0433.
HOWARD v. SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN, INC. et al.
(387 SE2d 332)

Opinion:
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 re porter'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.