A MANHATTAN judge has ordered a hearing to determine if one of the country’s largest debt rating agencies is eligible for protections afforded journalists under New York’s Shield Law.

The ruling came after the agency, Fitch Inc., a competitor to Standard & Poor’s, asked Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Herman Cahn to quash a subpoena by National Medical Care Inc., a Boston company involved in litigation over the sale of home care assets.

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