Final reaction paper! Due 12-10

Worth up to 20 points..

When a lawyer presents a case to the court, one way of creating a strong argument is citing precedent: past court cases that are similar to yours, where the outcome is in your favor.
Use your best skills of argument and finding past precedent in this paper:

A nuclear power plant located in Colorado Springs, CO. provides power to a 400-mile radius.

The plant is notable for being tied to the Defense Department's local network of "in-case-of-disaster" installations (the North American Aerospace Defense Command is located in Colorado Springs).

A journalist receives a tip from a source whose name they know but wishes to remain anonymous in print (or they won't give the journalist information). The tip concerns the lack of security at the plant, including sleeping guards and visibly broken security cameras.

The plant offers a tour to the public once a month. Of course, no cameras are allowed. The journalist goes undercover, posing as a regular citizen, and takes the tour. Once inside the journalist uses a special hidden camera to take still photographs.

The tipster was right. The journalist discovers many faults in the security at the plant.

The newspaper decides to go with it as a multi-part story, spanning five days. Different pictures and detailed notes from inside will be published.

After the first edition is released, the government immediately springs to action. The Defense Department launches an injunction against the paper, trying to stop further pictures and details from being published whatsoever and also to reveal the identity of the anonymous source. They also want to charge the journalist with trespassing.

The court will hear the opening arguments to decide if the paper has a right to publish this information and whether the journalist must reveal their source.

Take one side or the other. The side of the newspaper, arguing for the right to print it (and no trespassing), or the side of the Defense Department, arguing that it should not be allowed to go to print (and the journalist should be charged with trespassing).

**** Your best bet to win is to cite prior court cases that show that you are right. **** You can use court cases from your book (Chapter 14) or from the Internet (one idea, try Googling: reporter trespassing).