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Appeals (Ninth Circuit) in Shoen v. Shoen, 5 Frd 1289 (9th Cir. 1993) and in Shoen v. Shoen, 48F 3d 412 (9th Cir.1995). These established case law sustaining the right of authors of non-fiction books to not identify either confidential or
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and of the then unsolved murder of Eva Shoen. When he refused to identify his sources under subpoena he was twice found in contempt by a
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Birthright (William Morrow & Co., 1993, 425 pp.)
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