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I am Vice President and General Counsel of movant Daily News, L.P., publisher of the New York Daily News (the "Daily News"). I am admitted to practice before this Court. 2. I make this Declaration in further support of the motion of === EXTRACTED TEXT === UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK x IN RE APPLICATION TO QUASH SUBPOENAS TO DAILY NEWS, L.P., AND GEORGE RUSH • • x No. 10 M8-85 (LMM) REPLY DECLARATION OF ANNE B. CARROLL Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, Anne B. Carroll declares as follows: 1. I am Vice President and General Counsel of movant Daily News, L.P., publisher of the New York Daily News (the "Daily News"). I am admitted to practice before this Court. 2. I make this Declaration in further support of the motion of the Daily News and Daily News journalist George Rush for an Order pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 45(cX3XAXiii) quashing subpoenas ad testificanduni and duces twain served on than by plaintiff Jane Doe in an action pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida captioned Doe v. Jeffrey Epstein, No. 08-cv-80893-1CAM, or in the alternative for a Protective Order pursuant to Fed. R Civ. Proc. 26(cXI). 3. Annexed hereto as Exhibit A is a true and correct copy of E & J Gallo Winery v. Encana Energy Servs.. Inc. 33 Med. L. Rptr. 1413 (S.D.N.Y. 2005) (Preska, J.). 4. Annexed hereto as Exhibit B is a true and correct copy of L.W. v. Knox County Bd. of Educ.. 36 Med. L. Rptr. 1721 (E.D. Tenn. 2008). 5. Annexed hereto as Exhibit C is the Supplementary Affidavit of George Rush in this proceeding, sworn to on April 30, 2010. 6. Jane Doe's brief in opposition to Jeffrey Epstein's motion for summary judgment dismissing the federal claims in this action ("Si °pp.') may be found on PACER, S.D. Ma. Civil Docket for Jane Doe v. Jeffro Epstein, Case # 9:08-cv-80893-KAM ("Dockerp, ppeP4 EFTA00207294 expressions of confidence in the strength of the evidence in her own case may be found at, e.g., SJ Opp 2 (Doe "has ample evidence that [Epstein] committed federal sex offenses against her"); 11 (Epstein's fraudulent concealment of assets "evidences [his] awareness that he is liable to the girls for substantial sums of money because of his sexual abuse of them," citing Epstein's Mar. 8, 2010, deposition); 12 ("Epstein does not deny that he repeatedly sexually abused Jane Doe when she was a minor"); 35 ("Jane Doe can easily prove her case"). 7. Specific examples given in Doe's opposition to summary judgment of invocations of the 5th Amendment warranting adverse inferences include Epstein's silence in the face of such confrontational Requests for Admission as "[y]ou have committed sexual assault against Plaintiff, a minor," and "[y]ou digitally penetrated Plaintiff when she was a minor," SJ Opp. at 4, and his refusal to answer numerous questions at a Mar. 8, 2010, deposition, id. at 10 & Ex. D. 8. Annexed hereto as Exhibit E is a copy of pertinent pages of the Complaint in Epstein v. Rothstein, Edwards No. 50 2009 CAO 40800 (Cir. Ct., 15th Jud. Cir., Palm Beach Co., Dec. 7, 2009), as downloaded from http://www.scribd.com/doc/23947743/121009- epstein. 9. Shortly after receiving service of the subpoenas served on Daily News, L.P., and George Rush which movants seek to quash in this proceeding, I asked plaintiffs counsel Bradley Edwards whether he would withdraw them in exchange for an affidavit from Mr. Rush attesting to the fact that he had interviewed Mr. Epstein. Mr. Edwards said he would not. 10. On Friday, April 30, 2010, I received service of a subpoena from Doe's counsel requiring movant journalist George Rush to appear before this Court on May 4, 2010, at 11:00 a.m., for the purpose of giving testimony in an evidentiary hearing in connection with this matter. A copy of the subpoena is annexed hereto as Exhibit F. I I. On Friday, April 10, 2010, 1 entailed the Supplementary Affidavit of - 2 - EFTA00207295 George Rush (Exhibit C hereto) in this proceeding to counsel for plaintiff Doe and asked if, having seen it they would withdraw the testimonial subpoena to Rush, given that there are no material facts in dispute among the parties to this proceeding. Counsel responded that they would do so only if movants would stipulate to the accuracy of all facts alleged in the subpoenas of Brad- ley Edwards and Michael Fisten submitted in support of Doe's opposition to movants' motion to quash or for a protective order. I declined. 1 declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on May 3, 2010 /1/4A-c e Anne B. Carroll (AC 5322) - 3 - EFTA00207296 EXHIBIT A EFTA00207297 Media Law Reporter Page 1 of Kir-:; Media Law Reporter's Source: Media Law Reporter Cases > U.S. District Courts, New York > E&J Gallo Winery v. Encana Energy Services Inc., 33 Med.L.Rptr. 1413 (S.D.N.Y. 2005) 33 Med.L.Rptr. 1413 EL) Gallo Winery v. Encana Energy Services Inc. U.S. District Court Southern District of New York No. M8-85 January 12, 2005 EPO GALLO WINERY, a California corporation v. ENCANA ENERGY SERVICES INC., a Delaware corporation, f/k/a PANCANADIAN ENERGY SERVICES INC.; ENCANA CORPORATION, a Canadian corporation, f/k/a and successor to PANCANADIAN ENERGY CORPORATION Headnotes NEWSGATHERING [1] Forced disclosure of information — Disclosure of unpublished information — In civil actions (.60.1003) Forced disclosure of information — Common law privilege (.60.20) Plaintiff's subpoena seeking documents and testimony from nonparty media entity will be quashed, since information sought is subject to full protection of qualified reporter's privilege, in that nonparty engages in newsgathering activities, information sought involves confidential sources and information, information was gathered with intent to distribute it to public in form of published price indices, and creation of price indices involves subjective editorial judgment, since plaintiff failed to overcome privilege by making sufficient showing that material sought is highly material and critical to its claims, and that it exhausted other available sources of information, and since subpoena is unduly burdensome under Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(c). Case History and Disposition Civil action in which plaintiff issued subpoena seeking documents and testimony from nonparty media entity. On nonparty's motion to quash. Granted. Attorneys Stephen Williams, of Cotchett, Pitre, Simon & McCarthy, Burlingame, Calif., for plaintiff. Allison Gooding, of Gibson Dunn and Crutcher, New York, N.Y., for defendants. Victor A. Kovner, Matthew Leish, and Duffy Carolan, of Davis Wright Tremaine, New York, for nonparty McGraw-Hill Companies. Opinion Text Opinion By: Preska, J.: ORDER Non-party The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. ("McGraw-Hill"), by its attorneys, "Victor A. Kovner and Matthew A. Leish, Davis Wright Tremaine LIP (Duffy Carolan, Davis Wright Tremaine LIP, of counsel) having moved for an Order quashing a subpoena duces tecum and ad testificandum issued to McGraw-Hill by Ha Gallo Winery ("Gallo") on October 25, 2004 in stinn ittp://medialaw.bna.conthnedw/disnlav/hateh mint disnlav arin7crarrhid=11711717 EFTA00207298 Meala Law Keporter Page 2 of connection with the underlying action pending in the Eastern District of California; and The court having considered the Declaration of Larry Foster in Support, dated December 13, 2004, with exhibits; the Declaration of Duffy Carolan in Support, dated December 8, 2004, with exhibits; the Supplemental Declaration of Larry Foster in Support, dated January 6, 2005; the Declaration of Barbara L Lyons in Opposition, dated December 27, 2004; the Declaration of Steven N. Williams Page 1414 in Opposition, dated December 28, 2004, with exhibits; the Request for Judicial Notice submitted in Opposition by Mr. Williams, dated December 28, 2004; the Joinder by Encana defendants in McGraw-Hill's motion; the Declaration of Julie K Buxbaum in Support of the Joinder by Encana, dated December 22, 2004, with exhibits; the Supplemental Confidential Declaration of Mr. Williams in Opposition, dated December 28, 2004, with exhibit; the various Memoranda of law submitted by McGraw-Hill, Gallo, and the Encana defendants; and argument of counsel; The Court hereby finds as follows: [ 1 ] The Gallo subpoena seeks documents and testimony that are subject to the full protections of the qualified reporter's privilege as recognized in this Circuit. In re Petroleum Products Antitrust Litigation, 680 F.2d 5 [8 Med.L.Rptr. 1525) (2d. Cir. 1982); see also In re Pan Am Corp., 161 B.R. 577 [22 Med.L.Rptr. 1118) (S.D.N.Y. 1993). McGraw-Hill has established that its division Plans is engaged in newsgathering activities in connection with its publication of price indices (also referred to as price assessments); that the subpoenaed documents and testimony involve confidential sources and confidential information; that Platts gathers information from its sources with the intent to distribute it to the public in the form of its published price indices; and that the creation of the indices involves subjective editorial judgments. Accordingly, to overcome the privilege, Gallo must make a clear and specific allowing that the documents and testimony it seeks are (1) highly material and relevant, (2) necessary or critical to its claims, and (3) not obtainable from other available sources. Gonzales v. National Broad. Co., Inc., 194 F.3d 29 [27 Med.L.Rptr. 2459] (2d Cir. 1999), Krase v. Graco Children's Products, Inc., 79 F.3d 346 [24 Med.L.Rptr. 1599] (2d Cir. 1996). Gallo has failed to make a sufficient showing that the subpoenaed documents and testimony are either highly material, as required to satisfy the first prong of the three-part test, or critical to its claims, as required to satisfy the second prong. Gallo also has failed to show that it has exhausted other available sources of information, including the Encana defendants, the CFTC, and other energy companies. In particular, because Gallo cannot establish that it has exhausted the deposition process, or that it has completed its litigation efforts to seek documents and testimony from alternative sources, it cannot make a clear and specific showing of exhaustion. Finally, I find that the subpoena is unduly burdensome under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 45(c). While Gallo has narrowed its subpoena to the Henry Hub and hubs in California, this narrowing does not decrease the burden on McGraw- Hill for the reasons set forth in the Declarations of Mr. Foster. Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that McGraw-Hill's motion to quash the subpoena duces tecum and ad testificandum is granted. - End of Case - Contact us at http://www.bna.com/contact/index.html or call 1-800-372-1033 ISSN 1944-0359 Copyright (.0 2010, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. Reproduction or redistribution, in whole or in part, and in any form, without express written permission, is prohibited except as permitted by the BNA Copyright Policy. http://www.bna.com/corp/index.html#V inp://inedialaw.bna.com/rnedw/displav/batch print display.ado?searchid=11231712 5/3/201( EFTA00207299 EXHIBIT B EFTA00207300 Media Law Reporter Page 1 of Media Law Reporter® Source: Media Law Reporter Cases > U.S. District Courts, Tennessee > L.W. v. Knox County Board of Education, 36 Med.L.Rptr. 1721 (E.D. Tenn. 2008) 36 Med.L.Rptr. 1721 L.W. v. Knox County Board of Education U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee No. 3:05-CV-274 March 25, 2008 L.W., a minor, by and through his parents SAMUEL and TINA WHITSON v. KNOX COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, et at. Headnotes NEWSGATHERING (1) Forced disclosure of Information — Disclosure of unpublished Information — In dvil actions (.60.1003) Forced disclosure of information — Common law privilege (P60.20) Forced disclosure of information — Statutory privilege ("shield" laws) (P60.25) Given federal claims raised by plaintiffs, nonparty reporter's motion to quash subpoena in civil action must be resolved under federal, and not state, law; motion is granted, even though reportor's privilege does not exist in U.S. Court of Appeals for Sixth Circuit, since, under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26, plaintiffs have failed to show that reporter possesses any unique evidence not addressed during her previous deposition or otherwise available from individuals referenced in article, since plaintiffs have had ample opportunity to obtain information sought, and since burden and expense of proposed discovery outweighs its likely benefit. Case History and Disposition Motion by nonparty reporter to quash subpoena in civil action. Granted. Attorneys Charles W. Pope Jr., of Pope Law Offices, Athens, Tenn.; Heather G. Hacker, Alliance Page 1722 Defense Fund, Folsom, Calif., and Nathan W. Kellum and Jonathan Scruggs, of Alliance Defense Fund - Memphis, Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiffs. Martha H. McCampbell, Office of Knox County Law Director, Knoxville, Tenn.; and Gary M. Prince and P. Alexander Vogel, of O'Neil, Parker & Williamson, Knoxville, for defendants. Opinion Text Opinion By: Guyton, U.S. Magistrate Judge: This civil action is before the Court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §636(b), the Rules of this Court, and by the Order [Doc. 192) of the Honorable Thomas W. Phillips, United States District Judge, for disposition of non-party Endo Mellon's Motion to Quash Subpoena and for Protective Order. [Doc. 189) On March 24, 2008, the parties appeared before the Court for a hearing on the instant motion. Attorney Richard Hollow appeared on behalf of Ms. Mellon, attorneys Martha McCampbell and Gary Prince appeared on behalf of the defendants, and attorney Jonathan Scruggs appeared on behalf of the crtnnir http://medialaw.bna.com/medw/disnlav/hatch mint dicnlav arin7cearchirl=11911711 EFTA00207301 Media Law Reporter Page 2 of plaintiffs. Ms. Mellon moves the Court to quash a deposition subpoena served on her by the plaintiffs, with the deposition set to occur on March 26, 2008, in Houston, Texas. ' As grounds, Ms. Mellon states that the plaintiffs seek to depose Ms. Mellon regarding a newspaper article 2 she authored in May, 2005, on matters at issue in this litigation. Ms. Mellon argues that Tennessee's Shield Law protects her from having to testify in this matter, and further argues that, even if Tennessee's Shield Law does not apply, that the deposition should still be quashed under the standards established by Rule 26(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The plaintiffs oppose the motion, arguing that under Rule 501 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, it is federal common law, not Tennessee Law, that controls, and that the Sixth Circuit does not recognize a reportorial privilege. Plaintiffs further argue that under Rule 26, the discovery sought is highly necessary for plaintiffs' case and unavailable from other sources, and thus the deposition should be permitted. 1 Ms. Mellon, formerly a newspaper reporter in Knoxville, currently resides in Houston, where she continues to work as a newspaper reporter. 2 The Court notes, for the sake of reference, that the newspaper article at Issue was filed by the plaintiffs in conjunction with their motion for preliminary injunction. [Doc. 21, Exhibit G) ( 1 ] Under Rule 501 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, questions of privilege are generally controlled by federal common law when the court's jurisdiction is based upon a federal question, but state law generally controls when the court is exercising diversity jurisdiction. Fed. R. Evid. 501. In the instant case, the Court is faced with several federal claims, but plaintiff also relies in part on claims under the Tennessee Constitution, thus there is a mix of state and federal claims. The Sixth Circuit has held that, when faced with a combination of federal claims and pendent state law claims, federal common law controls under Rule 501. Hancock v. Dodson, 958 F.2d 1367, 1372-73 (6th Cir. 1992) ("Since the instant case is a federal question case by virtue of the appellant's section 1983 claim, we hold that the existence of pendent state law claims does not relieve us of our obligation to apply the federal law of privilege/1 Given the federal claims raised by the plaintiffs, the Court accordingly finds that the instant motion must be resolved under federal, not state, law. Turning next to the question of whether there is a reportorial privilege in the Sixth Circuit, the Court finds that there is not. The Sixth Circuit has clearly recognized that reporters do not possess a special privilege against being compelled to testify. In re Grand Jury Proceedings, 810 F.2d 580, 584-85 [13 Med.L.Rptr. 2049) (6th Cir. 1987). Rather, the Court must apply the balancing test established by Rule 26. In re DaimlerChrysler AG Securities Litigation, 216 F.R.D. 395 (E.D. Mich. 2003) (finding that the Sixth Circuit does not recognize a general reportorial privilege, but quashing a deposition subpoena of a reporter under Rule 26 as unduly burdensome and duplicative). Under Rule 26(b)(2)(C): [title frequency or extent of use of the discovery methods otherwise permitted under these rules and by any local rule shall be limited by the court if it determines that: (i) the discovery sought is unreasonably cumulative or duplicative, or is obtainable from some other source that is more convenient, less burdensome, or less expensive; (ii) the party seeking discovery has had ample opportunity by discovery in the action to obtain the information sought; or (iii) the burden or expense of the proposed discovery outweighs its likely benefit, taking into account Page 1723 the needs of the case, the amount in controversy, the parties' resources, the importance of the issues at stake in the litigation, and the importance of the proposed discovery in resolving the issues. Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(2)(C). During the motion hearing, defense counsel stated that all of the individuals referenced in the article have been deposed in this matter, and that none of those individuals have refuted the article during their depositions. Additionally, Ms. Mellon's counsel stated that Ms. Mellon was deposed in this matter by the plaintiffs on May 26, 2006, during which Ms. Mellon answered several questions as to the veracity of the article. 3 Ms. Mellon's counsel also stated that the deposition would pose a significant hardship for Ms. Mellon, as it would necessarily require Ms. Mellon to miss work, as well as requiring Ms. Mellon to incur additional expenses associated with an attorney traveling out of state to attend a deposition. 3 A copy of the transcript from Ms. Mellon's May 26, 2006, deposition has been filed. [Doc. 190, Exhibit 8) In contrast, the plaintiffs argue that the previous deposition of Ms. Mellon is of no use at trial if the plaintiffs cannot also introduce the underlying newspaper article, and thus that they need to conduct a second deposition in light of the Court's Order precluding the introduction of the newspaper article as an exhibit at trial. The plaintiffs contend that the information they seek from Ms. Mellon cannot be obtained from any other source, and that the information sought is essential to their Itto://mectialaw.bna.com/medwklisnlav/hatch nrint disnlav arlilicestrrhiti=11111711