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ASHCRAFT v. CONOCO, INC.

No. 98-2567.

218 F.3d 282 (2000)

Hurshel L. ASHCRAFT, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CONOCO, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee, Cory Reiss, Appellant, and Kayo Oil Company; Triangle Facilities, Incorporated, Defendants. Associated Press; The News & Observer; The Charlotte Observer; The Baltimore Sun Company; Richmond Times-Dispatch; The McGraw-Hill Companies, Incorporated; The Washington Post; Gannett Company, Incorporated; Dow Jones and Company, Incorporated; The North Carolina Press Association; The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: July 6, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Floyd Abrams, Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, New York, New York, for Appellant. Jonathan Drew Sasser, Moore & Van Allen, P.L.L.C., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Landis C. Best, Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, New York, New York; Stephen T. Smith, McMillan, Smith & Plyler, Raleigh, North Carolina; Mark J. Prak, Harold H. Chen, Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, L.L.P., Raleigh, North Carolina; George Freeman, Assistant General, The New York Times Co., New York, New York, for Appellant. David E. Fox, Andrew B. Cohen, Moore & Van Allen, P.L.L.C., Raleigh, North Carolina; George A. Phair, Senior, Conoco, Inc., Houston, Texas, for Appellee. Rodney A. Smolla, The T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, for Amici Curiae.

Before WIDENER and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges, and BLAKE, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

Reversed by published opinion. Judge BLAKE wrote the opinion, in which Judge WIDENER and Judge LUTTIG joined.

OPINION

BLAKE, District Judge:

Cory Reiss, a reporter for the Wilmington, North Carolina, Morning Star newspaper, appeals from the district court's October 23, 1998 order finding him in civil contempt of court and ordering him to an indefinite term of imprisonment for refusing to divulge the identities of certain confidential news...

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