Waivering: a number of journalists have testified about their conversations with confidential sources after receiving waivers from the sources freeing them to do so. Is this a pragmatic way to stay out of jail or a breach of journalistic ethics that could pose big problems for the profession?
When reporter Judith Miller emerged from jail in late September after 85 days, she and her boss at the time, New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., were united in declaring victory. She had received a voluntary, direct waiver from her source releasing her from her promise of confidentiality...

Crawford Cooperating With Department of Justice Investigation.
ATLANTA, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Crawford & Company (NYSE: CRDA CRDB) announced today that the company has been served with federal grand jury subpoenas issued out of the Northern District of Ohio seeking certain company records relating primarily to two of its domestic businesses, Healthcare Management Services...

Paper Sues to Silence Cyber Attacks.
Tracie Cone and Anna Marie dos Remedios knew there'd be plenty of unknowns when they jumped from working for a major metropolitan newspaper to owning a Hollister, California, weekly in late 1999. But they never expected to have to reveal their private lives on their own front...

Statement of Ed Bethune, Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P. Attorneys for Congressman Tom DeLay.
WASHINGTON, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Ed Bethune, Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P., Attorneys for Congressman Tom DeLay: Today, two weeks before this case was to be argued before Judge Penfield Jackson, the DCCC complaint against Congressman Tom DeLay is being...

Censured IOC Member Kim Un-Yung Is Now Prime Candidate For Committee Presidency.
Wants to Reverse Ban on Visits to Bidding Cities: 'Talking About Whether Or Not to Take a $200 Souvenir Is Not Reform' NEW YORK, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- South Korea's Kim Un-Yung, a member of the International Olympic Committee who was censured stemming...

Apria Healthcare Comments on SEC Filing.
COSTA MESA, Calif., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Apria Healthcare Group Inc. (NYSE: AHG) issued the following statement concerning information contained in an SEC filing it made this morning which was reported on by one or more news services. Since mid-1998, Apria has been responding to...

Patriot spawn: slipping down the slope.
WHEN A DRAFT of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act, nick-named PATRIOT II, was leaked last year, public outrage scuppered the proposal. But since then key provisions of the bill have been introduced piecemeal, in what many civil libertarians see as an attempt to fly below the public's radar. ...

Landmark Files Explosive New Complaint Against the NEA.
Teachers' Union May Have Violated Federal Tax Law By Coordinating Campaign Activities With Democrats HERNDON, Va., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Landmark Legal Foundation made public today the most explosive tax complaint ever filed against the National Education Association (NEA). Landmark's complaint, which was...

The end of the Internet's policemen: in losing ISP battle, recording industry is faced with moving beyond strategy of fear.
For Internet service providers, the D.C. Circuit's recent ruling that they are not required to release information on subscribers who may be copying music illegally was an unexpected gift, but the ruling left many speculating on the effect it would have on the already-strained relationship between content providers and...

Barr Confirms Receipt of Massachusetts Subpoena.
POMONA, N.Y., May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Barr Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BRL) today confirmed that it has received a subpoena, issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General, for the production of documents related to pricing and reimbursement of select products in Massachusetts. Barr is...