I know that a lot of news has passed under the current-events bridge of late, but: does everyone remember the Batman murders in Aurora, Colorado? Summer of 2012? I recall it because the trial date in approaching (October '14) and because it has already spurred some ancillary appellate litigation in which regular readers of this blog may well have opinions. The US Supreme Court decided on May 27, 2014 that it would not hear an appeal from a decision of the highest state court in New York. That court had employed the state's "shield" law to quash a subpoena issued in Colorado. so you have issues of interstate comity, state/federal relations etc. The gist of it is that somebody involved in this case violated a trial court gag order issued by the Colorado court and talked to a reporter in New York. [A reporter for Fox News, which of course doesn't matter as a matter of legal principle at all but may matter to some readers for all I know. Further,...
