[Seth-Trips] Apple v. Does hearing on motion, Friday, San Jose [press@eff.org: [E-S] EFF: Hearing Friday Could Determine the Future of Online Journalists' Rights]

[Seth David Schoen]

I won't be able to make it, but maybe some people in the South Bay
would be interested.  Note that space is extremely limited and that
you should dress up if you go.

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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:16:08 -0800
From: EFF Press <press at eff.org>
To: presslist at eff.org
Subject: [E-S] EFF: Hearing Friday Could Determine the Future of Online

Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release

For Immediate Release: Thursday, March 03, 2005

Contact:

Kevin Bankston
  Attorney, Equal Justice Works / Bruce J. Ennis Fellow
  Electronic Frontier Foundation
  bankston at eff.org
  +1 415 436-9333 x126

Kurt Opsahl
  Staff Attorney
  Electronic Frontier Foundation
  kurt at eff.org
  +1 415 436 9333 x106

Hearing Friday Could Determine the Future of Online
Journalists' Rights

San Jose, CA - This Friday, the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) will face attorneys for Apple Computer in
a hearing to determine whether three independent online
journalists will be given the same legal protections as
journalists who work for traditional media publications.

Apple is suing several unnamed individuals, called "Does,"
who allegedly leaked information about an upcoming product
code-named "Asteroid."  Apple has subpoenaed Nfox, the
Internet service provider (ISP) for PowerPage.com publisher
Jason O'Grady, demanding that the ISP turn over the
communications and unpublished materials O'Grady obtained
while he was gathering information for his articles about
"Asteroid."  Apple has also been granted permission to
issue subpoenas to EFF clients AppleInsider.com and
PowerPage for similar information.

In the first case of its kind, EFF will argue that these
online reporters' confidential sources and unpublished
material are protected by both the reporter's shield in the
California Constitution and the reporter's privilege
protected by the federal First Amendment.  The hearing will
be Friday, March 4, at 10:00 a.m. at the Santa Clara County
Superior Court, 191 North First Street, San Jose.  Press
are welcome to attend. Seating is limited.

Apple v. Does:
http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Apple_v_Does/

For this release:


About EFF

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil
liberties organization working to protect rights in the
digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and
challenges industry and government to support free
expression and privacy online. EFF is a member-supported
organization and maintains one of the most linked-to
websites in the world at http://www.eff.org/


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Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> | Very frankly, I am opposed to people
     http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/   | being programmed by others.
     http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/     |     -- Fred Rogers (1928-2003),
                                       |        464 U.S. 417, 445 (1984)