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- Catherine Herridge, former Fox News investigative reporter, petitioned the Supreme Court to protect her confidential sources.
- A federal judge held Herridge in contempt and fined her $800 per day for refusing disclosure.
- The D.C. Circuit upheld the contempt order, applying a narrow test on plaintiff’s need and exhausted alternatives.
- Herridge’s 2017 reporting claimed Yanping Chen, a Chinese-American businesswoman, previously served as a People’s Liberation Army colonel.
- After the report, the Pentagon ended $200,000-per-month military tuition assistance to Chen’s university following a national-security review.