Sentence examples for in refusing to identify from inspiring English sources
But the same Pentagon that gleefully made public Linda Tripp's file containing a teenage arrest record now cites privacy concerns in refusing to identify the male general accused of making a pass at the highest-ranking female officer.
In December, after the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service invoked a new federal law, the Patriot Act, in refusing to identify the detainees, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit in United States District Court in Washington to get the names.
On Monday, a federal district judge in Washington held Time magazine and one of its reporters in contempt for refusing to identify their sources in the same case.
Last week, another federal judge in Washington held a reporter for Time magazine in contempt for refusing to identify a confidential source in a criminal investigation, one involving the leak of the name of a covert Central Intelligence Agency officer, and ordered the reporter jailed.
Falk had previously been charged with obstructing justice and spent four days in jail for refusing to identify an IRA volunteer he had interviewed.
That is slightly higher than the $1 million that Mr. Kohl has admitted receiving in that period while refusing to identify the donors.
Beginning in 1950, Trumbo spent 11 months in prison for defying the House Un-American Acthree years earlierthree years earlier by refusing to identify colleagues in the movie business who, like him, had dabbled with Communism.
And when Mr. Glickman lifted off last week from Andrews Air Force Base in a C32-A, the Air Force version of the civilian Boeing 757, he had only two undecided congressmen in tow -- and administration officials were refusing to identify them until the flight had left, lest they be pressured at the last minute to drop out.
The bill would create a federal media shield law, akin to ones most states already have, giving journalists some protections from penalties for refusing to identify confidential sources in federal law enforcement proceedings, and generally enabling journalists to ask a federal judge to quash subpoenas for their phone records.
In that case, two brothers were arrested for resisting a police officer last year after refusing to identify themselves.
