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Sep. 26, 2006

Don't Count on 9th to Shield Reporters, Experts Say

SAN FRANCISCO - Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters ordered to jail for refusing to name sources of secret grand jury testimony shouldn't count on a federal appeals court to rescue them, legal scholars and media attorneys said Friday.

By Amelia Hansen
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN FRANCISCO - Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters ordered to jail for refusing to name sources of secret grand jury testimony shouldn't count on a federal appeals court to rescue them, legal scholars and media attorneys said Friday.
      The reporters who published big scoops on a sports steroids scandal two years ago have struck a ...

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