What's more, anyone who is involved with the "gathering, preparing, collecting, photographing, recording, writing, editing, reporting or publishing of news and information for dissemination to the public" will be considered a "journalist," and will be shielded from prosecution for refusing to comply with a federal court's demand for naming names, or supplying documents.
But environmental groups and former agency officials say the agreement is a bad deal for the public because while the companies are collecting data, they will be shielded from prosecution for violations of the Clean Air Act and other federal laws.
The supreme court must now pronounce on how the question of immunity will apply to the former head of state, whether it will be extended to personal matters and whether the former king will be shielded from the law for the periods before and after he was king.
Regulators have not yet been able to make a convincing case for how taxpayers will be shielded from bailouts of big, interconnected financial firms.
Some departments, including health and funding for universal benefits such as free prescriptions, will be shielded from cuts.
It will be a life which will be shielded from many of the pressures and frustrations that are everyday occurrences for the rest of us.
we will be shielded from global, rising fossil fuel prices.
The work site will be shielded from public view.
Names will be shielded with identification numbers.
Yet despite everything we know about the dangers of radiation (from Hiroshima to Fukushima), our government continues to sanction the unremitting production of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel, for which there is no safe disposal and from which living beings will have to be shielded for many generations to come.
Mr. Mancuso is shielded for now.
