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...decision reversed a $500,000 libel judgment against the New York
Times and four Negro clergymen in Alabama. But it did far more than wipe out the award. It defused a welter of libel cases brought by public officials in the South against assorted critics, including nine other cases against the Times. And by holding that Alabama's libel laws are unconstitutionally broad, the court cast doubt on similar state libel laws all over...
...rule that libel on government has no place in our Constitution is to have real meaning," said Goldberg, "then libel on the official conduct of the governors likewise can have no place in our Constitution." He proposed granting critics total immunity, partly on the grounds that a public official has "equal if not greater access" to public forums, and can there readily neutralize any wrongs done to his reputation...
Justice Black went even farther. The Sullivan judgment, said he, offers "dramatic proof that state libel Taws threaten the very existence of an American press virile enough to publish unpopular views on public affairs and bold enough to criticize the conduct of public officials. An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment. I regret that the court has stopped short of this...
...subject of Courant stories, he was a reader and advertiser. On March 14, 1796, he bought half a page in the paper to offer some of his Virginia farm land for lease to "real farmers of good reputation, and none others need apply." Thomas Jefferson sued the paper for libel after an 1806 Courant accusation that he had secretly bribed France to win its support. He lost his case in the U.S. Supreme Court...