In the Bartnicki and Florida Star cases, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a journalist's mere receipt of information from a source is lawful, even when the source obtains the information illegally or is not supposed to disclose it.

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In both Bartnicki v. Vopper and Florida Star v. B.J.F., the U.S. Supreme Court held that a journalist's mere receipt of information from a source is lawful under the First Amendment, even if the information was obtained illegally or in violation of a privacy interest.

In the Bartnicki and Florida Star Cases, the U