public statement by eight alabama clergymen directed to martin luther king jr

• New York Times v. Sullivan

... made Sullivan believe it was directed at him?. How did the descriptions of the issues be...What facts and legal principles did the Alabama Supreme Court rely on for its decision, and how wa... the Times , and Sullivan and the four clergymen, together. Both sets of briefs are included. Opini... Court, Harwood, J., held that the publication of libelous matter in another state and the distri... witness that they associated libelous statements in advertisement with plaintiff who was suing defe... to Alabama for the purpose of covering the Martin Luther King trial. After his arrival in Montgomery..., inclusive, approximately seventeen to eighteen thousand dollars worth of advertising was thus sol...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Milestones in the Law

• Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, 343 U.S. 495 (1952)

...Their importance as an organ of public opinion is not lessened by the fact that they are ...] Thereafter, for a period of approximately eight weeks, "Ways of Love" was exhibited publicly in a ..., on January 19, 1951, the Regents directed appellant to show cause, at a hearing to be held o..., dissenting, concluded from all the statements in the majority opinion that "the basic criterion ... . Footnote 16 Cf. Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U.S. 88, 97 (1940); Stromberg v. California, ...Protestant clergymen, representing . [Page 343 U.S. 495, 514] . vario... the current religious dogma.[Footnote 51] King James I's "Book of Sports" was first required read... Martin, A New Universal English Dictionary (London, 1754)... are being made to film a "Life of Martin Luther." N. Y. Times, April 27, 1952, 2, p. 5, col. 7. Co...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Rep. John Conyers Jr. Holds a Markup On Monica Goodling's Immunity Status and Pending Business

... REP. MARTIN T. MEEHAN, D-MASS. REP. BILL DELAHU... REP. STEVE KING, R-IOWA REP. TOM FEENEY, R-FLA. ... been examining go to the very heart of the public's ability to rely on the integrity of our legal sy... These inflammatory and premature statements by members of Congress caused Ms. Goodling to invo..., said, "There's people we want besides you eight, but we're also going to put you in defensive mode...Without objection, the staff is directed to make any technical and conforming changes. All...1592, offered by Mr. Davis of Alabama. At the end of the bill, insert the following new ...Chairman. Mr. Chairman, Martin Luther King said that.. CONYERS: Let's have the clerk re...For those members and for those clergymen who wrote those letters earlier, who nonetheless h...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 18, 2009

• A 'triumph of justice' in Alabama: the 1960 perjury trial of Martin Luther King, Jr.

... a city ordinance requiring segregation in public transit. In response, local African American leade... doubt as to the subject of Fields' statements, even if he had no direct information. (15) Back i...(32) On 25 February, three Manhattan clergymen--Harry Emerson Fosdick, Gardner C. Taylor, and Ric... daily for dignity and freedom." Eighteen of these twenty were ministers, four of whom were ..., the defense made a motion for a directed verdict to acquit King because the state had faile...

• The Journal of African American History
• Vol. 88 Nbr. 3, June 2003

• The Village Years

Several stories from the Village Voice 1955-1965 issues are presented. These include The Hip and The Square from May 2, 1956 issues.

...While the eight who lived in the South Village (below Bleecker Str... the Assembly, broke the story that Edmond Martin, Village realtor, had placed a sign in his office ...Martin's tenants signed a statement of fundamental opposition to his stand. . . . "As ... and hotels, particularly the Munchinger King, one of the town's two principal hostelries. To my... Newport Jazz Festival has yet to make a public announcement to the townspeople exhorting them not... Forman who hates the oppressor and Martin Luther King who loves the oppressed. There were hundreds ...And there were thousands of clergymen symbolizing the revolution within a revolution-the... over because it will be dangerous," and directed them to shuttle buses to the City of St. Jude, a R... songs that came out of the Movement in Alabama's Black Belt. A group of about 500 from St. Louis ...

• Village Voice, The
• August 05, 2009

• Compassion in Dying, a Washington Nonprofit Corporation; Jane Roe; John Doe; James Poe, Harold Glucksberg, M.D., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. State of Washington; Christine Gregoire, Attorney General of Washington, Defendants-Appellants., 79 F.3d 790 (9th Cir. 1996)

... message of that case lies in its statements regarding the type of issue that confronts us here...Striving to assure itself and the public that announcing rights not readily identifiable in....2d 1010 (1967), (relying, in an opinion for eight Justices, on the Due Process Clause). Similar exam... philosophers, poets, and even some clergymen--Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Francis Bacon, Da...86 As Kent said in King Lear, when signs of life were seen in the dying mo...2, pp. 1465 et seq., 1947). Martin Luther and John Calvin also opposed suicide. Marze...See Pace v. Alabama, 106 U.S. 583, 585, 1 S.Ct. 637, 638, 27 L.Ed. 207... of a Constitutional Right to Self-Directed Death, 26 U.Tol.L.Rev. 81, * 3 (1994). 61 Most...

• Federal Circuits

• Lillie Boman Et Al., Appellants, v. Birmingham Transit Company, Appellee., 292 F.2d 4 (5th Cir. 1961)

... Court for the Nothern District of Alabama; Harlan Hobart Grooms, Judge. Arthur D. Shores, Bi... by this appeal requires that their statement in the majority opinion be supplemented. The thirt...The driver was directed to repeat to each individual Negro the request tha... been peremptorily demanded by the Alabama Public Service Commission in a written communication addr... for the majority composed of the remaining eight members of the Court, rejected this argument in an... of that crusade were idealists and even clergymen who did not have a clear idea of the difference be...198, 210; People ex rel. King v. Gallagher, 93 N.Y. 438; People ex rel. Cisco v...., November 26, 1960, between Reverend Martin Luther King, a Negro leader and President of the S...

• Federal Circuits