กำลังเล่นซ้ำ วันจันทร์ที่ 24 มิถุนายน ค.ศ. 1991

Ruling on Lawsuits by News Sources

Date: 25 June 1991

Following are excerpts from the Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision yesterday in Cohen v. Cowles Media Co., holding that the First Amendment does not protect the news media from lawsuits over broken promises of confidentiality of sources. Justice Byron R. White's opinion was joined by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia and Anthony M. Kennedy. The dissenters were Justices Harry A. Blackmun and David H. Souter, who each wrote dissenting opinions, as well as Justices Thurgood Marshall and Sandra Day O'Connor. FROM THE OPINION The question before us is whether the First Amendment prohibits a plaintiff from recovering damages, under state promissory estoppel law, for a newspaper's breach of a promise of confidentiality given to the plaintiff in exchange for information. We hold that it does not.

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Foundation Ordered To Pay News Groups

Date: 25 June 1991

AP

A University of South Carolina foundation was wrong to deliberately destroy public documents and must pay $227,000 in legal fees to two news organizations that had sought its records, a judge ruled today. The judge, Carol Connor of Circuit Court, ordered the Carolina Research and Development Foundation to reimburse The Associated Press and The Greenville News, which sued in 1987 after the foundation refused to make the records public.

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Justices Rule Press Can Be Sued For Divulging a Source's Identity

Date: 25 June 1991

By Linda Greenhouse

Linda Greenhouse

The Supreme Court ruled today that the First Amendment did not protect a news organization from a lawsuit if it promised to keep the name of a source secret but later disclosed it. The 5-to-4 decision revived a highly publicized nine-year-old lawsuit by a former political consultant against Minnesota's two biggest newspapers, The Star Tribune in Minneapolis and The St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch. Lawyers for news organizations said today that the ruling was likely to encourage other such lawsuits.

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Anonymity: a Tool Used, and Abused

Date: 25 June 1991

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

Promises of confidentiality to news sources are the grease that helps make the wheels of journalism turn, especially in investigative reporting. From leaked documents to tips, from "off the record" interviews to "background" briefings, the offer of anonymity in exchange for useful information is a fundamental element of the craft of journalism as it is practiced today.

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Bodies of 2 BBC Newsmen in Iraq Identified

Date: 24 June 1991

Two bodies found in a remote area of northern Iraq last month have been identified as those of BBC journalists who disappeared along the Turkish-Iraqi border in March. A third member of the BBC team is still missing, and the British authorities say they have no definitive leads in the case. The three were covering the Kurdish refugee crisis when they disappeared. They were last seen March 23.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 25 June 1991

INTERNATIONAL A3-16 Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany will meet Mikhail Gorbachev before the meeting of the leading industrial democracies, hoping to persuade the Soviet leader to make reforms that could bring Western aid. Page A1 Hard-liners in the Soviet Parliament again attacked President Gorbachev's reach to the West, charging that Soviet moves were not being reciprocated from abroad. A16

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 24 June 1991

International A3-7 The Soviets should be offered a role, though limited, in the International Monetary Fund, the seven leading democracies agreed. It would be a milestone in Moscow's march to join the world financial system. Page A1

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Computer Group

Date: 25 June 1991

The Advanced Computing Environment, a consortium of computer makers and software publishers created in April to develop a new industry computing standard, said 40 more companies have joined the initiative and specified their first hardware designs. Some of the initial 21 sponsors of the group were Compaq Computer, Digital Equipment, Microsoft and Mips Computer Systems. New members include Adaptec, Daewoo Telecom, Epson America, Goldstar and Parallan Computer.

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Eljer Industries

Date: 25 June 1991

Reuters

Eljer Industries said its board voted to accept an invitation from Hanson P.L.C.'s Jacuzzi Inc. unit to discuss Jacuzzi's offer of $20 a share, or $145 million, for Eljer. Eljer also said it would appeal a recent Federal court ruling against the company in a liability suit involving problems with a plastic plumbing system manufactured by Eljer's United States Brass Corporation unit. Dozens of such suits have been filed, and Eljer said it had set aside $12.2 million for claims.

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Sabena in Talks

Date: 25 June 1991

AP

Sabena, the Belgian state airline, and British Airways are likely to agree on a partnership by the end of next month, a Sabena spokesman said. British Airways could take a direct stake in Sabena by purchasing $324 million in new shares, the spokesman said, but talks are continuing and nothing has been settled yet. Sabena said in February that the ailing state carrier would be restructured to cut costs, find new investors and attract a partner to help make Brussels the center of a European regional air network.

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