Ninth Circuit Rules That Freelance Journalist Josh Wolf Must Comply With Federal Subpoena
By Stephen Kaus
Huffingtonpost.com–In an unpublished ruling issued Thursday, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal ruled against freelance video journalist Josh Wolf and stated that he must comply with a grand jury subpoena for his unpublished footage.
Winning in the Ninth Circuit is very much the luck of the draw these days. Although Wolf drew a favorable three judge panel for his bail motion, that was the August motions panel. This merits ruling was made by the September motions panel which features three much more conservative judges. They deemed the case so easy that no oral argument was necessary. They also determined not to publish their opinion, which generally means that they do not deem it to be significant enough to disseminate outside the parties to the case. Full article here.