Court Opinion

ID: 9736228
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 18:48:01.972953+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:27:05.187923
License: Public Domain

Quirico, J.
(with whom Liacos, J., joins, concurring in the result and the reasoning in support thereof, but not in the concluding dictum of the opinion). I concur with the result reached by the court in its opinion and with all of the reasoning in support of that result. In short, I concur with the opinion to the end of the second part thereof entitled “Discovery supervision claim.”
*641I do not believe that the concluding part of the opinion entitled “Common law considerations” is essential to the decision of this case, and therefore consider it dictum. While I agree with the general statements therein about the continuing development of the common law, I do not join that part of the dictum which appears to be a current commitment to a future recognition of a common law equivalent of a so called press “shield” law. That is a subject on which regulation has been sought from the Legislature without success to date. I believe that judicial action or commitment on the subject should await a decision directly involving an issue thereon.