Word: farbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Farber spent 40 days in jail after refusing to turn over materials he gathered in the case of a New Jersey doctor accused of murder...
SPRINGFIELD--The Supreme Court's refusal to review New York Times reporters Myron Farber's contempt conviction for withholding confidential files leaves "a festering problem," Farber said yesterday...
...through the prolonged process that Farber did, both my newspaper and I would be belly-up and out of business," Robert M. Porterfield, who earlier this month won a court fight in Alaska very similar to the Farber case, said yesterday. The 33-year-old Porterfield is a Pulitzer-prize winning reporter for the Anchorage Daily News spending a year at Harvard in the Nieman Foundation's program for professional journalists...
...case was more typical of shield law conflicts because, unlike Farber's case, I at least got a hearing," said Porterfield, who termed himself "a purist who still believes that the first amendment gives blanket coverage to reporters...
Anthony Lewis, a lecturer at the Law School and columnist for The New York Times, said yesterday that he "regretted the court's refusal to review the case because I think the New Jersey court's actions were unfair to Mr. Farber and The Times...