SHIELD LAW

WHAT DOES IT DO

• It protects the press and the
• Journalists also news reporters
• From having to reveal their
• Sources

WHEN DID IT START

• The issue of weather or not journalists
• Can be forced to reveal confidential
• Information arose in 1972 with the
• Untied state Supreme Court case
• Branzburg v. Hayes

WHAT HAPPENED

• Branzburg found two citizens taking a drug he was writing
• about. Telling them he would not reveal their identities
• They told him to Him about using the drugs. In court the
• Grand jury ordered him to reveal the name but he refused
• And cited the freedom o f the press from the 1st amendment

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