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...been accustomed to swimming upstream a good deal of my life," he says. Berger concedes it would be "utterly unrealistic" to expect the Supreme Court to reverse its host of 14th Amendment decisions. But tie wants the Justices to leave future cases involving busing, criminal law, obscenity, abortions, libel and voting rights to state courts and legislatures...
Shelledy earned a jail sentence. In what is being called a stunning setback for press freedom, the Supreme Court last week declined to review his contempt citation for refusing to identify the "police expert" in a pretrial deposition for a libel suit filed against him and the paper by Caldero...
...compelled to testify in cases involving crimes they have witnessed, but never extended that requirement to other legal proceedings. If courts in other states embrace the Idaho decision, any aggrieved citizen can force a reporter to disclose his source-or go to jail-simply by suing for libel...
Shelledy, 34, who must still face Caldero's libel suit, is scheduled to begin his 30 days in jail this week. "There are places I'd rather be," says the journalist, now Tribune executive editor. He fears that more reporters may suffer because of libel actions. Indeed, an Idaho judge two months ago denied a bid by the Twin Falls Times-News and two reporters to protect the identity of sources on a story that had provoked a $36 million libel suit...
Humes says he arranged the hearing with Jones, the governor's assistant legal counsel, primarily to try to persuade the state of Massachusetts to join Humes in a criminal libel suit against the state of New Jersey. Humes claims he was never served the warrant for his arrest issued by Jones, but a state police officer yesterday gave a different version of the sequence of events leading to Hume's present at-large status. According to the officer, who asked not to be identified, a suspect on whom an "out-of-state" warrant is issued has 90 days in which...