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The Knoxville News Sentinel reported today that it complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for information about a single user comment on its Web site.
County prosecutors in Illinois have subpoenaed the grades, notes, recordings, and electronic correspondence of journalism students who have been gathering evidence that could exonerate a convicted criminal defendant, the Chicago Tribune reported.
A South Carolina newspaper alerted an anonymous online commenter that he or she has until Oct. 2 to respond to a Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce subpoena or the newspaper will hand over the commenter’s identity.
Despite a court order, a San Diego reporter has managed to avoid testifying in the court martial of a Marine he interviewed who was subsequently brought up on disobedience charges for speaking with the press.
A freelance reporter writing a book about a psychiatrist's child molestation case has been called as a witness in the trial and kicked out of the courtroom, according to the San Mateo County Times.
Even as the Las Vegas Review-Journal said it will cooperate with a narrowed subpoena from federal prosecutors for information about two anonymous comments left below an online news story, the ACLU announced it would seek to quash the subpoenas on behalf of the commenters, the paper reported last week.
In a court filing Monday, the Detroit Free Press accused former U.S. prosecutor Richard Convertino of conducting a "quintessential fishing expedition" as the paper continued to fight a subpoena in Convertino's Privacy Act lawsuit.
Former U.S. prosecutor Richard Convertino insisted in papers filed Tuesday that the Detroit Free Press must testify in his Privacy Act lawsuit over a leak from the Department of Justice.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal is facing a federal subpoena for identifying information about people who commented on its Web site, the newspaper disclosed Sunday.
