United States First Circuit

A television reporter's civil contempt order was affirmed, relating to his failure to testify as to the source of information he aired on television in violation of a protective order in a federal corruption case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/21/2004
• Published 06/21/2004

Judges

• BOUDIN, Chief Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan M. Albano with whom Bingham McCutchen LLP, William P. Robinson III, Edwards & Angell, LLP, Susan E. Weiner, Brande M. Stellings and National Broadcasting Company, Inc. were on brief for appellant-third-party witness James Taricani., Laura R. Handman, Jeffrey L. Fisher, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Henry S. Hoberman, ABC, Inc., David A. Schulz, The Associated Press, Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, L.L.P., Jonathan S. Piper, Blethen Maine Newspapers, Preti Flaherty Beliveau Pachios & Haley LLC, Susanna M. Lowy, CBS Broadcasting Inc., David C. Vigilante, Cable News Network LP, LLLP, Stuart D. Karle, Dow Jones & Company, Inc., Barbara W. Wall, Gannett Company, Inc., Eve B. Burton, Jonathan Donnellan, The Hearst Corporation, Gordon Yamate, Knight-Ridder, Inc., Kenneth M. Vittor, William Farley, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., George Freeman, The New York Times Company, Rene P. Milam, Newspaper Association of America, Stephen Fuzesi, Jr., Newsweek, Inc., Jan F. Constantine, NYP Holdings, Inc., Russell F. Coleman, The Providence Journal Company, Belo Corp., Lucy A. Dalglish, The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Robin Bierstedt, Time Inc., Stephanie S. Abrutyn, Karlene Goller, Tribune Company, Eric N. Lieberman and WP Company LLC, d/b/a The Washington Post, on brief for ABC, Inc., The Associated Press, Blethen Maine Newspapers, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Cable News Network LP, LLLP, Dow Jones & Company, Inc., Gannett Company, Inc., Globe Newspaper Company, Inc., The Hearst Corporation, Knight-Ridder, Inc., The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., The New York Times Company, Newspaper Association of America, Newsweek, Inc., NYP Holdings, Inc., The Providence Journal Company, The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Time Inc., Tribune Company, and The WP Company LLC, d/b/a The Washington Post, Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marc DeSisto with whom DeSisto Law, Joan McPhee, William S. Eggeling and Ropes & Gray LLP were on brief for appellee United States of America and the Special Prosecutor.