Thursday, August 1, 2013

Media Shield Law/ Student Loan Bill/ Transportation Funding/ Timber Harvest/ Stage 1 Fire Restrictions


Missoulian: Senate presses ahead with media shield law
S.987: Free Flow of Information Act of 2013
“Prohibits a federal entity (an entity or employee of the judicial or executive branch or an administrative agency of the federal government with the power to issue a subpoena or other compulsory process), in any proceeding or in connection with any issue arising under federal law, from compelling a covered person to disclose protected information, unless a federal court in the jurisdiction where the compulsory process has been or would be issued determines, after providing notice and an opportunity for the covered person to be heard, that all reasonable alternative sources have been exhausted and that separate specified conditions have been met depending on whether the matter is a criminal investigation or prosecution.”




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