Jail time?
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Miller, a press reporter is covering the United Nations' 'food for oil' scandal and Cooper Times, White House correspondent, ahs contributed reporting to a range of diplomatic and political stories. They are willing to go to jail for disclosing the confidentiality rather than disclose the source to the grand jury investigating the leak of CIA operative Plame's identity.
Publication Name: CQ Researcher
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1056-2036
Year: 2005
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Chilling effects?
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The cases of Time's Cooper and Time's Miller are spreading a wave of concern among the journalists against the confidentiality dispute. Similar cases are mentioned, like the Supreme Court's discounted fears of a chilling effect on potential sources when it refused to recognize a reporter's privilege in the Branzburg case in 1972.
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Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1056-2036
Year: 2005
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Teachers' union sues
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The NEA and eight school districts sued the Department of Education contending that it violated an NCLB provision that says states cannot be forced to use their own money to implement the law. Some legal experts revealed that regardless of its merits, the lawsuit could be dismissed on procedural grounds.
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Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1056-2036
Year: 2005
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