Reporter Privilege: Can Nebraska Pass a Shield Law to Bind the Whole World?

Authors

Todd F. Simon, National Law Center, George Washington University

Abstract

I. Introduction

II. Arguments For and Against Creating the Privilege

III. Federal Constitutional Basis for Source Confidentiality

IV. Reporter Privilege in the States

V. Conflicts of Law, Federalism, and Supremacy

VI. To Bind the Whole World?

Recommended Citation

Todd F. Simon, Reporter Privilege: Can Nebraska Pass a Shield Law to Bind the Whole World?, 61 Neb. L. Rev. (1982)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol61/iss3/4