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IN RE APPEAL OF GOODFADER

No. 4143.

45 Haw. 317 (1961)

367 P.2d 472

IN RE APPEAL OF ALAN L. GOODFADER FROM ORDER COMPELLING HIM TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ON DEPOSITION.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

November 3, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Russell Cades and Harold S. Wright (Smith, Wild, Beebe & Cades, of counsel) for deponent-appellant.

James H. Kamo and Hiroshi Sakai for plaintiff-appellee.

Harriet Bouslog (Bouslog & Symonds, of counsel) filed a brief for Hawaii Newspaper Guild, Local 117, American Newspaper Guild, AFL-CIO, amicus curiae, but did not argue.

TSUKIYAMA, C.J., CASSIDY, WIRTZ, LEWIS AND MIZUHA, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY CASSIDY, J.

We are concerned on this appeal with the authority of a court to compel a newspaper reporter to divulge his source of confidential information.

Nesta M. Gallas, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, instituted an action in the court below against the members of the Civil Service Commission of the City and County of Honolulu, seeking her reinstatement as personnel director of the commission, from which position she had...

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