Supreme Court will NOT rule on Cooper & Plame until next fall

[seemslikeadream]

Posted 5/10/2005
Supreme Court urged to protect reporters from jail time

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has been asked to throw out contempt orders against two journalists who refused to reveal sources in the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity.
Lawyers for Time magazine's Matthew Cooper and The New York Times' Judith Miller want the justices to clarify protections reporters have in keeping sources confidential. Cooper's appeal was filed Tuesday; Miller's was made Monday.

The Supreme Court will decide next fall whether to consider the cases.

Cooper and Miller face up to 18 months in jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury as part of an investigation into who divulged the name of CIA officer Valerie Plame. Disclosure of an undercover intelligence officer's identity can be a federal crime.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-10-reporters-leak_x.htm

[Horse with no Name]

1. Lemme just throw a guess out here

"Next fall" will be after the 2006 selections?

[Voltaire]

2. No...this year

Their term starts the first Monday in October.

[Nevernose]

3. They won't even HEAR it until next Fall

They probably won't rule on it until next Spring.

[Me.]

4. XX&*@*HYX#$@

I thought the deal worked out was that all parties agreed not to jump any guns and they would get it to the SC before it finished for the summer and, that it would be heard before the court finished this term?