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FISCHER v. McGOWAN

Civ. A. No. 83-0481 S.

585 F.Supp. 978 (1984)

Syd FISCHER and Australian Challenge for the America's Cup, Plaintiffs, v. Andrew McGOWAN and Newport Offshore Ltd., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

April 13, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Decof & Grimm, R. Daniel Prentiss, Vincent T. Cannon, Providence, R.I., for plaintiffs.

Gunning, LaFazia & Gnys, Edward L. Gnys, Jr., Providence, R.I., for defendants.

Edwards & Angell, Deming E. Sherman, Jeffrey Schreck, Providence, R.I., for deponent.

OPINION AND ORDER

SELYA, District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of a United States Magistrate for this District compelling Bruce Stannard, a reporter for an Australian-based newspaper, to disclose the names of confidential sources upon whom he relied in authoring an article which appeared in the Melbourne Age on July 19, 1983.1 Written at a time when the upcoming America's Cup finals had captured the imaginations...

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