UCG scores win in First Amendment case.In a First Amendment win for journalists, a federal judge has ruled that UCG UCG United Church of God UCG Underground Coal Gasification UCG University College Galway UCG Unified Communications Group (Microsoft) UCG Universal Command Guide for Operating Systems (Guy Lotgering book) does not have to disclose the identities of subscribers who responded to a confidential reader survey. The ruling came nearly a year after UCG was subpoenaed for the information as part of a civil lawsuit. The Funeral Consumers Alliance Funeral Consumers Alliance is a nonprofit federation of organizations ("memorial societies" or "funeral planning societies") in the United States and Canada "dedicated to protecting a consumer's right to choose a meaningful, dignified, affordable funeral. , which filed an anti-trust lawsuit against three public funeral home companies and a casket supplier, last year subpoenaed Funeral Service funeral service n → misa de cuerpo presente funeral service n → service m funèbre funeral service funeral n Insider, a UCG newsletter. The Alliance wanted the names of funeral directors who had responded to a reader survey in 2004, arguing that the responses amounted to confessions by funeral directors to having participated in an illegal boycott boycott, concerted economic or social ostracism of an individual, group, or nation to express disapproval or coerce change. The practice was named (1880) after Capt. of third-party casket sellers. "This is information that nobody is going to give the press if they're not promised confidentiality," U.S. Magistrate Any individual who has the power of a public civil officer or inferior judicial officer, such as a Justice of the Peace. The various state judicial systems provide for judicial officers who are often called magistrates, justices of the peace, or police justices. Judge Jillyn K. Schulze said in announcing the decision. She added, "The balance weighs so heavily on reporter's privilege in this case that it's not even close." |
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