Monday, March 07, 2005

Sweet citation

I am cited on page 99, footnote 38, of this well-reasoned opinion by Judge Robert W. Sweet of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Sweet wrote an excellent opinion finding a common-law reporter's privilege, in accordance with Rule 501 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, in the case of two journalists whose telephone records were sought by the federal government. Judge Sweet surveyed the laws of the 50 states on reporter's privilege and cited to my 2003 article on Utah's reporter's privilege, which was published in the BYU Journal of Public Law.