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Download full textAtwater, Tony – 1981
As a means of providing additional search warrant protection for the news media and others engaged in public communications, the United States Congress adopted the "Privacy Protection Act of 1980." Legal and documentary research conducted over a period of two years has revealed a potential defect of the statute relating to the court…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Court Litigation, Federal Courts, Legal Problems
