WILLIAM A. NORRIS, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the question whether an investigative author, at work on a forthcoming book, may be compelled to testify and produce notes and tape recordings of interviews he conducted with a source who happens to be a defendant in a defamation action. We hold, under the circumstances of this case, that he may not.
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Appellant Ronald Watkins is an investigative author of books on topical and controversial subjects...
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