MATTER OF CBS INC.


232 A.D.2d 291 (1996)

648 N.Y.S.2d 443

In the Matter of CBS Inc., Respondent. Dennis C. Vacco, as Attorney-General of The State of New York, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

October 24, 1996


The subpoena issued by the Office of Professional Discipline, requesting the unpublished portions of a CBS videotape created during CBS's undercover investigation of a pharmacist allegedly dispensing drugs without proper prescriptions, as well as the identity of the CBS undercover employees, was properly quashed. Under Civil Rights Law § 79-h, known as the Shield Law, a qualified privilege exists as to nonconfidential materials...

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