The dilemma

The order came at four in the afternoon. Neil Bracken, the manager who lost his job over your story, is suing you for lying about him, and the judge says you name Alina or you pay 500 dollars a day until you do. Your lawyer says the law that usually protects reporters does not cover this, because the leaked document is what the lawsuit is about. The appeal is maybe one chance in three, and the fine runs while it is heard. The hospital has already handed Bracken's side its own server records, because it wants the leaker as badly as he does. Marta reads the order twice. '{{NAME}}, four months of savings. Then there is no site.'

Your options

1. You refuse, on the record, and file the appeal. You gave your word with no conditions attached to it.
2. You offer the court the files under seal, everything except the name, so Bracken can test them the way you did.
3. You call Alina before you answer the court, so she hears it from you and not from Bracken's lawyer.