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RILEY v. CITY OF CHESTER

No. 79-2528.

612 F.2d 708 (1979)

William RILEY v. CITY OF CHESTER and Joseph F. Battle, Mayor of the City of Chester, and John Owens, Chief of Police of the City of Chester, Geraldine Oliver, a witness for the Plaintiff, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 14, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph F. Lawless, Jr., Petrikin, Wellman, Damico & Carney, Media, Pa., Francis J. Sullivan, Fairless Hills, Pa., for appellant Geraldine Oliver.

Samuel E. Klein, Joseph F. Roda, Kohn, Savett, Marion & Graf, P.C., Philadelphia, Pa., for amici-intervenors, Bucks County Courier Times, etc.

Arthur Levy, Levy & Surrick, Media, Pa., for City of Chester and others.

John M. Gallagher, Jr., Richard, Brian, DiSanti & Hamilton, David R. Black, Media, Pa., for appellee William Riley.

Before GIBBONS, HIGGINBOTHAM and SLOVITER, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF COURT

SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by Geraldine Oliver, a staff writer for the Delaware County Daily Times for approximately 26 years, who was adjudged by the district court to be in civil contempt because, when questioned by counsel for the plaintiff in a civil action pending in the district court, she refused to identify the source of her information for a newspaper article she wrote. This case raises the question of the circumstances...

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