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BAKER v. F & F INVESTMENT

No. 173, Docket 72-1413.

470 F.2d 778 (1972)

Charles BAKER et al., Appellants, v. F & F INVESTMENT et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 7, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas C. Nohlgren, Thomas P. Sullivan, John C. Tucker, John G. Stifler, Richard T. Franch, Chicago, Ill. (Jenner & Block, Thomas J. Boodell, Jr., Boodell, Sears, Sugrue, Giambalvo & Crowley, Chicago, Ill., Herbert Teitelbaum, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York City, of counsel), for appellants.

Martin I. Kaminsky, Pollack & Singer, New York City, for appellees.

Before SMITH, KAUFMAN and MULLIGAN, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

This unusual interlocutory appeal involves the validity of a district judge's decision refusing to compel a journalist to disclose confidential news sources. Appellants here are plaintiffs in a federal class action pending in the Northern District of Illinois,1 a case which involves alleged racial discrimination in the sale of houses to Negroes in Chicago. Appellants moved in the Southern District of New...

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