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NEW YORK TIMES CO. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S006709.

51 Cal.3d 453 (1990)

796 P.2d 811

273 Cal. Rptr. 98

NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY, Petitoner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Respondent; JEROME SORTOMME et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

September 27, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Price, Postel & Parma, Gary R. Ricks, Judith A. Brown, C. Michael Cooney, Peter M. Tiersma and Kenneth A. Richieri for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Coffield, Ungaretti, Harris & Slavin, Joseph A. Cari, Michael T. Trucco, Peter J. Wifler and Harold E. Kahn as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.

Herzfeld & Rubin, Richard L. Ackerman, Michael A. Zuk, Roy D. Goldstein and Seymour W. Croft for Real Parties in Interest.

Wilbur F. Littlefield, Public Defender (Los Angeles), Laurence M. Sarnoff and Albert J. Menaster, Deputy Public Defenders, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.

OPINION

EAGLESON, J.

We are asked to decide in this case whether the California newspersons' shield law (Cal. Const., art. I, § 2, subd. (b); Evid. Code, § 1070) provides a newspaper publisher with immunity from contempt for its refusal to comply with a civil subpoena for unpublished photographs of an automobile accident on a public highway. The threshold question is whether the term "unpublished information" in the shield...

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