A journalist will not have to face a videotaped deposition into his sources of information and reporting methods for articles he wrote for The Wall Street Journal about the sale of what turned out to be a failing company, a federal appellate court has ruled.
A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit determined on Feb. 15 in Baker v. Goldman Sachs & Co., 11-1591-cv, that the Shield Law, New York Civil Rights Law §79-h(b)-(c), protected journalist Jesse Eisinger from testifying about two Wall Street Journal articles he wrote a decade ago about a business acquisition.
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