By: Lawyers for a Montana State University professor who sued the school for gender discrimination have asked the Bozeman Daily Chronicle to turn over all information about its coverage of the lawsuit as well as the names of those who posted or viewed comments about the case on the newspaper's Web site.
The Chronicle this week argued that the state's shield law protects any newspaper employee from being compelled to testify or turn over any information that "was gathered, received or processed in the course of business."
The case involves MSU professor Aleksandra Vinogradov, who claimed she was treated differently and was paid less than her male counterparts in the engineering department. A jury in April ruled against her.
Vinogradov's attorneys said that before the jury completed its deliberations, at least one juror, independent from evidence presented during the trial, came to believe that Vinogradov had lost similar lawsuits. The attorneys are asking for a mistrial.
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