A former USA Today reporter has asked an appeals court to block daily fines levied by a judge who wants her to disclose confidential sources about anthrax attacks.
Toni Locy (LOH-see) has been ordered to pay up to $5,000 a day out of her own pocket until she identifies her sources for news stories about a former Army scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 attacks.
Lawyers for Locy filed an appeal Monday saying that a judge is making demands that are overbroad and financially ruinous.
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton says Locy must reveal many confidential sources in hopes that some might recall that they were sources for two stories Locy wrote about scientist Steven J. Hatfill.
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