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SINNOTT v. BOSTON RETIREMENT BOARD

402 Mass. 581 (1988)

524 N.E.2d 100

RICHARD J. SINNOTT vs. BOSTON RETIREMENT BOARD & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 13, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Susan Garsh (Jonathan M. Albano with her) for Charles A. Radin.

Regina L. Quinlan for the plaintiff.

Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., Carol D. Melamed & Barbara P. Percival of the District of Columbia, for The Washington Post, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

James C. Heigham, for Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Jane E. Kirtley & Susan E. Bray of the District of Columbia, & James E. O'Connell, Jr., for Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

LYNCH, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of civil contempt entered in the Superior Court, pursuant to an order of a single justice of the Appeals Court,1 against a deponent, Charles A. Radin, a newspaper reporter, for refusing to comply with an order that he answer questions aimed at discovering the identities of confidential sources. We transferred the case to this court on our own motion and now reverse.

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