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November 2014

Articles & Reports – Model Shield Law Task Force

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Catalog of Subpoena Decisions by Category of Material and Reasons Sought: 2014 Update

 Download Publication Prepared by the Model Shield Law Task ForceNovember 2014 The Catalog of Subpoena Decisions by Category of Material and Reasons Sought was first released by MLRC in 2010. The catalog summarizes subpoena decisions, including those from the last few years, arising in no fewer than 10 scenarios – from accident and crime scenes…

Model Shield Law 2014

Prepared by the MLRC Model Shield Law Task Force, August 2014 The MLRC Model Shield Law was developed by the MLRC Model Shield Law Task Force. It will update a prior Model that we developed a number of years ago. The Model Shield Law has been designed to assist  in the creation, or updating, of…

Catalog of Subpoena Decisions by Category of Materials and Reasons Sought

 Download Publication Prepared by the Model Shield Law Task Force, March 2010 I.    ACCIDENT SCENES A.    Subpoena quashed/Privilege applied California New York Times v. Superior Court, 51 Cal. 3d 453, 18 Media L. Rptr. 1145, 1149, 1151 (Cal. Ct. App. 1990) (statutory privilege applied to unpublished photographs of accident scene; shield law provides absolute immunity…