United States Eleventh Circuit

Where Plaintiff seeks to compel disclosure of a confidential source that formed the basis of an article about Plaintiff in "Sports Illustrated magazine, the magazine is not a newspaper for purposes of Alabama-s shield law, and the order compelling disclosure is vacated. In addition, Plaintiff has not yet exhausted all reasonable efforts to discover through other means the identity of the confidential source.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/16/2005
• Published 09/16/2005

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES and PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and FORRESTER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen D. Heninger, Heninger, Burge, Vargo & Davis, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Price., Laura R. Handman, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Washington, DC, amicus curiae, for ABC, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott Burnett Smith, Gary C. Huckaby, Kimberly Bessiere Martin, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, LLP, Huntsville, AL., for Defendants-Appellants.