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shield law
noun
Legislation designed to provide a news reporter with the right to refuse to testify as to information and/or sources of information obtained during the news gathering and dissemination process.
Exact(54)
Maybe a press shield law.
Gawker suggested the action violated California's shield law for journalists.
For that reason, I don't support a shield law.
QUESTION: We wanted to start today with the shield law.
You said you narrowly support the shield law.
Would a media shield law have protected the AP?
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After the "fiscal-shield" law, recycled funds now stand at an estimated 10% of GDP.
Let's take the shield-law issue first.
Attempts to provide a federal 'shield law' — which codifies that legal privilege — have, thus far, failed.
He also introduced legislation to enact a Federal Shield law and worked to defeat legislation permitting warrantless surveillance.
Edwin and Texas Shield Law apparently not so much.
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