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When the media knowingly republish defamation of public figures, the media are subject to possible libel actions by the defamed parties to the same extent as the original defamingparties, even when the defamatory statements are themselves newsworthy in context. This is the dilemma created by the Supreme Court's decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, in which the Court went to great lengths to protect the media 's ability to report the news-even news that is false-so long as the republication is not done with a reckless disregard for the truth. What, then, should be done about information that is known to be false but is nonetheless necessary to inform public discourse? This Note suggests allowing republication based on the newsworthiness of the defamatory statements, i.e., when it ...
Your humble columnist and the newspaper that publishes this column both owe a great debt to the Supreme Court for the landmark case, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. The case, as much as any legal decision ever made, protects a newspaper's ability to seek out the truth.
... the Title I program as administered in New York City as well as the analogous parts of its decisio..., the Court, although closely divided at times, has from the start approved quite extensive publi... Justice Stewart argued that the Sullivan privilege is exclusively a free press right, deny...
... Amendment protection as contemplated by New York Times [Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964),] an...
...Virginia, 421 U. S. 809, 818(1975); New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U. S. 254, 266(1964); s...
...New York State Bd. of Elections v. Lopez Torres, 552 U. S. ... of Roberts, C. J.) (citing New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U. S. 254, 269–270 (1964))....
... be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open." New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U. S. 254, 270 (1964). ...
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