Supreme Court of Georgia, 1990

Howard v. SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN, INC.

Supreme Court of Georgia · Decided January 11, 1990 · Weltner

387 S.E.2d 332; 259 Ga. 795; 17 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1288; 1990 Ga. LEXIS 4 (South Eastern Reporter, Second Series)

Opinion

Weltner, Justice.

A newspaper reporter refused to answer certain questions propounded to her during a deposition taken in the course of civil litigation. Her refusal was based upon her assertion of a purported “qualified reporter’s privilege.”

The trial court held: “Georgia has no statutory qualified re *796 porter’s privilege. . . . [She] has no qualified reporter’s privilege under the law of this state.”

Decided January 11, 1990 Reconsideration denied February 6, 1990. Hull, Towill, Norman & Barrett, David E. Hudson, James B. Ellington, for appellant. Ranitz, Mahoney, Forbes & Coolidge, Morton G. Forbes, Catherine M. Bowman, Middleton & Anderson, Susan E. Shelley, Neely & Player, Taylor Tapley Daly, Leigh M. Wilco, for appellees. Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, Terrence B. Adamson, Peter C. Can-field, Carolyn Y. Forrest, amicus curiae.

This holding was correct. Vaughn v. State, 259 Ga. 325 (381 SE2d 30) (1989).

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.

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