Supreme Court justices on July 2 denied a request from former Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge to stay lower court rulings in a case involving at least one secret source.
Eight justices declined to enter a stay against a ruling that ordered Herridge to disclose her sources, and to pay $800 for each day she does not.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh said he would have stayed the ruling.
Lawyers for Herridge and Yanping Chen, a Chinese scientist and naturalized American citizen with alleged ties to the Chinese military, did not return requests for comment by time of publication.
The development came in a case involving a series of stories that Herridge wrote while working for Fox News centered on Chen in which she cited confidential sources in reporting that the FBI investigated Chen and her alleged ties to China….