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Posted: 12:55 PM May 20, 2004
Last Updated: 12:55 PM May 20, 2004
Reporter: Associated Press
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Fifteen news media organizations filed a court brief Wednesday supporting Sports Illustrated’s bid to protect the confidentiality of sources it used in an article about former Alabama football coach Mike Price.
The brief backed the magazine's petition to the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over a Birmingham federal judge's ruling that Alabama's shield law does not apply to magazines, even though it does apply to newspapers and radio and television stations.
Price, in his defamation suit against Sports Illustrated, is seeking the identities of confidential sources cited by the magazine in a story on a drunken night Price spent at a topless bar in Pensacola, Florida.
Price attorney Stephen Heninger of Birmingham contends case law is strong in support of Price's position that the identity of the sources should be disclosed.
Price, fired by Alabama, now coaches at Texas El-Paso.
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