Judge orders Oregonion to destroy documents in Nike case

A federal judge on Friday ordered The Oregonian not to publish information from documents it obtained last week from an attorney in a sexual discrimination case against Nike, reports Matthew Kish of The Oregonian.

Kish reports, “The attorney, Laura Salerno Owens, who represents the plaintiffs in the case, sent a file of documents to a news reporter on Jan. 19. She subsequently asked The Oregonian/OregonLive to return them and the news organization declined.

“She filed a sealed motion late Thursday with the court, asking in the title of the motion that ‘inadvertently disclosed’ documents be returned. The Oregonian/OregonLive was not provided a copy of the motion.

“U.S. Magistrate Judge Jolie A. Russo’s Friday order said The Oregonian/OregonLive must return the documents, ‘agree not to disseminate that information in any way; and to destroy any copies in its possession.’

“The Oregonian/OregonLive plans to immediately appeal the order.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.