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WOJCIK v. BOSTON HERALD, INC.

No. 03-P-479.

60 Mass. App. Ct. 510 (2004)

EDWARD WOJCIK & another v. BOSTON HERALD, INC., & others.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts

February 26, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Robert Dushman for the defendants.

Philip N. Beauregard (Michael Franco with him) for the plaintiffs.

Present: Mason, Grasso, & Green, JJ.

Bristol.

GREEN, J.

Though no privilege allows a newspaper reporter to refuse a discovery request seeking the identity of the source of an allegedly libelous statement, we agree with the defendants that a judge of the Superior Court erred in ordering them to disclose the identities of the "confidential" sources who furnished information contributing to the published newspaper stories at issue in the present...

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