Johnson v. Warner

Johnson v. Warner, Secretary of the Navy

Johnson v. Warner, 411 U.S. 966 (1973)

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Decided: May 7, 1973
Docket: No. 72-1189
Citations: 411 U.S. 96636 L. Ed. 2d 686

Cited by 115 8 descriptions by later courts

Opinion of the Court

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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.

How later courts describe this case

Explanatory parentheticals written by citing courts — 8 in all; the most informative distinct ones are shown.

(distinguishing Branzburg by stating “[n]o such criminal overtones color the facts of this civil case”)

United States v. Markiewicz, 732 F. Supp. 316 (N.D.N.Y. 1990)
(case remanded to allow the plaintiff to show misrepresentations in his enlistment contract entitling him to discharge)

Jablon v. United States, 657 F.2d 1064 (9th Cir. 1981)
(plaintiffs failed to exhaust available sources of information other than subpoena to discover identity of magazine article author’s confidential source)

Blum v. Schlegel, 150 F.R.D. 42 (W.D.N.Y. 1993)
(“court will look to the facts on a case-by-case basis in the course of weighing the need for the testimony in question against the claims of the newsman that the public’s right to know is impaired.”)

Bruno & Stillman, Inc. v. Globe Newspaper Co., 633 F.2d 583 (1st Cir. 1980)
(“highly material and relevant, necessary or critical to the maintenance of the claim”)

P. & B. Marina, L. P. v. Logrande, 136 F.R.D. 50 (E.D.N.Y. 1991)
(“[cjompelled disclosure of confidential sources ... threatens a journalist’s ability to secure information”)

United States v. Sanusi, 813 F. Supp. 149 (E.D.N.Y. 1992)
(specific record made on whether reporter had confidentiality understanding with anonymous source)

Cont'l Cablevision v. Storer Broad., 583 F. Supp. 427 (E.D. Mo. 1984)

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Apicella v. McNeil Laboratories, Inc.66 F.R.D. 78 (E.D.N.Y. 1975)
Anthony Herbert v. Barry Lando, Mike Wallace, Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., Atlantic Monthly Company, Barry Lando, Mike Wallace and Cbs Inc.568 F.2d 974 (2d Cir. 1978)
Andrews v. Eli Lilly & Co.97 F.R.D. 494 (N.D. Ill. 1983)
Senear v. Daily Journal-American618 P.2d 536 (Wash. Ct. App. 1980)
State ex rel. Classic III Inc. v. Ely954 S.W.2d 650 (Mo. Ct. App. 1997)
United States v. James Burke, Anthony Perla, Rocco Perla, and Richard Kuhn700 F.2d 70 (2d Cir. 1983)

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