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FOST v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. A089753.

95 Cal.Rptr.2d 620 (2000)

80 Cal.App.4th 724

Dan FOST, Petitioner, v. The SUPERIOR COURT of Marin County, Respondent; Darrell Hunter et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

Review Denied August 16, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Perkins Coie LLP, James F. Brelsford, Rachel A. Silvers, Chun T. Wright, Susan M. Infantino, Menlo Park, for Petitioner.

Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, John E. Carne, Kathy M. Banke, Helen P. Thorndal, Tait Graves, Oakland, for Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Paula Freschi Kamena, District Attorney, Kevin Jones, Deputy District Attorney, County of Marin, San Rafael, for Respondent Marin Superior Court.

Arthur K. Wachtel, San Francisco, John T. Philipsborn, San Francisco, for Real Party In Interest Darrell Hunter.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Michael E. Banister, Deputy Attorney General, Christina V. Kuo, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, for Real Party In Interest People of the State of California.

KLINE, P.J.

This writ proceeding presents a question of first impression relating to the newspersons' shield law. (Cal. Const., art. I, § 2, subd. (b); Evid.Code, § 1070.)

Petitioner Dan Fost, a journalist, asks us to vacate an order of respondent superior court holding him in contempt for refusing to disclose "unpublished information," claiming that the contempt order is prohibited by the shield law...

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