Court Opinion

ID: 9629505
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 09:43:49.631498+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:17:47.627345
License: Public Domain

Manoukian, J.,
concurring:
I agree with the majority’s holding respecting the issue of waiver. Absent the plenary waiver, the court would have been more sensitive in addressing the scope of the news reporter’s privilege.
In view of Newburn’s voluntary disclosures, we need not involve ourselves in the balancing of the newsman’s First Amendment rights against societal interests. See Application of Caldwell, 311 F.Supp. 358 (D.C.N.D. Cal. 1970); see also Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Corp., 563 F.2d 433 (10th Cir. 1977).