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Johnson, George C. – 1985
In a 1974 Yale Law School address, United States Supreme Court Justice Stewart stated that the institutional press, as far as the Constitution is concerned, is autonomous and may publish what it knows and may seek to learn what it can. He also noted that the Court had rejected the Constitutional claim of a journalist's privilege not to reveal a…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Constitutional Law, Content Analysis, Court Doctrine
Trevas, Harriet R. – 1980
In the United States Supreme Court's only decision on the question of journalists' protecting their confidential sources (the "Branzburg trilogy" of cases decided in 1972), Justice Lewis Powell emphasized the importance of "striking a proper balance between freedom of the press and the obligation of all citizens to give relevant…
Descriptors: Confidential Records, Confidentiality, Court Litigation, Disclosure
Walden, Ruth – 1984
An analysis of the Supreme Court's First Amendment decisions under Chief Justice Warren Burger does not indicate any pattern of repudiation of doctrinal advances made by earlier courts. Like its predecessors, the Burger Court has dealt most frequently with First Amendment cases requiring definition and interpretation of government abridgement. In…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
