Panel Hears Locy Appeal

Toni Locy, a former USA Today reporter, and currently a professor of journalism at West Virginia Univeristy, battles on in the DC Circuit to keep her sources secret and reverse a district court judge’s order that she pay thousands of dollars in fines. At issue is Dr. Steven Hatfill’s invasion of privacy lawsuit against the Department of Justice. He claims he needs the names of Ms. Locy’s sources; she claims that he doesn’t need them to pursue his suit since he is already headed to trial. Read more here.