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Article: Supreme Court hears cell-phone privacy case.
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- RCR Wireless News
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- December 11, 2000
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WASHINGTON--Can the news media disseminate information of public significance even if that information is stolen?
That is the question before the U.S. Supreme Court which last week heard oral argument in a case that could also impact a nationally significant case involving former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.).
The case comes from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, which ruled last year that two radio stations and some newspapers were protected from being sued for publishing and broadcasting the contents of an intercepted phone call.
This was the opposite ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which ...