High court won't hear CNN case.

Broadcasting & Cable, June, 1999 by Trigoboff, Dan

Media lose case again on privacy-violation issue

The U. S. Supreme Court last week rejected CNN's appeal of a lower court decision that held the network could be liable for violating the privacy of former criminal suspects. The appeals court decision stems from reporters accompanying federal officers in the execution of a search warrant in a suspect's home.

The court refused, without comment, to bear the case only a week after holding in a different part of the same case that police could be held liable for Fourth Amendment privacy violations for allowing media members to go into suspects' homes. That case was seen as a mortal wound to the practice of reporters riding along with police to film execution of search or arrest warrants in people's...

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