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CAREY v. HUME

No. 71-1736.

492 F.2d 631 (1974)

Edward L. CAREY v. Britt HUME, Appellant, Jack Anderson et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 28, 1974.

Rehearing Denied February 21, 1974.

Petition Dismissed June 5, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Appel, Washington, D.C., with whom Warren Woods and Betty Southard Murphy, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellant.

J. Gordon Forester, Jr., Washington, D.C., for appellee.

William R. Glendon and Anthony F. Essaye, Washington, D.C., filed a brief on behalf of the Washington Post Company as amicus curiae.

Before DANAHER, Senior Circuit Judge, and McGOWAN and MacKINNON, Circuit Judges.

Petition Dismissed June 5, 1974. See 94 S.Ct. 2654.

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:

The troublesome legal issue of the compelled disclosure by a journalist of his sources of information gave rise to this interlocutory appeal (28 U.S.C. § 1292(b)) from the District Court. It comes to us in the context of a civil action for libel, as contrasted with the criminal setting in which the Supreme Court has most recently examined the question and sustained compulsion...

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