| As ENRC
Pushes For Info From HarperCollins Author
Burgis Two Pier Press Freedom Shown
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 18 – Eurasian Natural
Resources Corporation is
pursuing information from,
through a subpoena against,
HarperCollins and author Tom
Burgis.
On January
18, Martin Luther King's Day
in the US, ENRC made a filing
in the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York asserting that it has
"been the victim of a
years-long smear campaign...
giving rise to an interminable
and harassing investigation by
the U.K. Serious Frauds
Office."
On the
other hand, Burgis has written
of what he says is an ongoing
FBI investigation of
Springfield, Missouri
deaths. Meanwhile
RCFP, which has yet to act on
more mundane but pervasive
closures and sealing and
denials to the press in the
SDNY, says "the subpoena
should be quashed because of
its impact on newsgathering.
Section 1782 prohibits
discovery that would violate
the reporter’s privilege.
Section 1782 affords the court
discretion to deny discovery
because of its impact on First
Amendment rights, including
reporter-source
confidentiality. Permitting
ENRC obtain confidential
newsgathering materials in
this case — in circumvention
of well-established
protections for reporters’
sources and work product —
would have a severe effect on
the ability of the news media
to investigate matters of
public concern, now and into
the future.”
The case is In
Re: Ex Parte Application
Pursuant to 28 USC 1782 For
Leave To Take Discovery For
Use in Foreign Proceedings,
20-mc-312 (Ramos)
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