POIRIER v. CARSON

No. 75-1134.

537 F.2d 823 (1976)

Leon S. POIRIER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Charles R. CARSON et al., Defendants, Bill Lynch, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied October 8, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Morrison, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Edward J. Gay, III, John G. Weinmann, Esmond Phelps, II, New Orleans, La., for Bill Lynch.

Before COLEMAN, RONEY and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied October 8, 1976.

RONEY, Circuit Judge:

This case contains the potential head-on conflict between a defendant newsman's claimed First Amendment right to keep secret his news sources and a plaintiff's claimed due process right in civil litigation to take full advantage of the discovery procedures. The conflict does not quite come off, however, because we hold that summary judgment as to liability was properly granted for...

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