Most bloggers aren’t journalists, at least when it comes to availing themselves of a New Jersey statute that gives reporters a privilege against revealing their sources, the state Supreme Court says.
Tuesday’s ruling, in the ominously named Too Much Media LLC v. Hale, A-7-10, means that blogger Shellee Hale, of Washington State, can be made to reveal her sources for her allegedly defamatory Internet postings about a Freehold software company. But the Court went further in the widely awaited decision, rejecting arguments by media and civil liberties advocates for a broad reading of the Shield Law and putting most of the blogosphere outside its protection.
NO SHIELD FOR BLOGGER, N.J. COURT RULES
by admin on June 8, 2011 in N.J. Legislation, N.J. Supreme Court
The N.J. Law Journal reports:
Most bloggers aren’t journalists, at least when it comes to availing themselves of a New Jersey statute that gives reporters a privilege against revealing their sources, the state Supreme Court says.
Tuesday’s ruling, in the ominously named Too Much Media LLC v. Hale, A-7-10, means that blogger Shellee Hale, of Washington State, can be made to reveal her sources for her allegedly defamatory Internet postings about a Freehold software company. But the Court went further in the widely awaited decision, rejecting arguments by media and civil liberties advocates for a broad reading of the Shield Law and putting most of the blogosphere outside its protection.
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Too Much Media LLC v Hale-A710
N.J. Shield Law
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