New York Times v. Sullivan : civil rights, libel law, and the free press /

New York Times v. Sullivan : civil rights, libel law, and the free press /

When the New York Times published an advertisement that accused Alabama officials of willfully abusing civil rights activists, Montgomery police commissioner Lester Sullivan filed suit for defamation. Alabama courts, citing factual errors in the ad, ordered the Times to pay half a million dollars in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hall, Kermit
Other Authors: Urofsky, Melvin I
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2011
Series:Landmark law cases & American society
Subjects:
Sullivan, L. B. > Trials, litigation, etc
New York Times Company > Trials, litigation, etc
Trials (Libel) > Alabama > Montgomery
Freedom of the press > United States
Libel and slander > United States
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Table of Contents:
  • A place in time
  • "Lies, lies, lies"
  • Trial by jury
  • "Let 'em see the dogs work"
  • The road to the Alabama Supreme Court
  • A new game plan
  • Briefing the Court
  • "May it please the Court"
  • "Uninhibited, robust, and wide-open"
  • Libel law after Sullivan
  • Coda: Civility and reputation
  • Chronology

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