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...late-night phone calls. After he decided not to run for re-election and returned to teaching at the University of Minnesota in 1964, Miss Koch attacked him so often that the state legislature was moved to probe "Communists" on the campus-and Rose was moved to sue for libel...
Curtis has also made a substantial recovery from the internal revolt that shook it last year. When Editor in Chief Clay Blair Jr., whose policy of "sophisticated muckraking" involved the Post in costly libel suits, tried to oust President Matthew Culligan, Curtis dumped them both. But not before the entire organization had suffered. The Culligan-Blair regime was a textbook example of mismanagement. Now that Blair is gone and Culligan has been replaced by John Clifford, a one-time NBC vice president, the editorial operation appears to be calming down. "For years we've heard nothing but the snap...
...same day): In the historic libel decision of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court overturned a judgment against Shuttlesworth and other civil rights leaders for running an ad in the Times that criticized Birmingham public officials...
...Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open," said the Supreme Court in 1964. In that famous decision (New York Times Co. v. Sullivan), the court ruled that a public official cannot collect libel damages even for false criticism of his official conduct unless he proves "actual malice." But who is a public official? The court did not say. As a result, lower courts have since extended the Times doctrine to reach "officials" ranging from a candidate for Congress to the law partner of a mayoral candidate...
Gilligan was later exonerated in both grand jury and departmental investigations, which held that he killed in self-defense after being attacked with a knife. As a result, last May he filed a $5,250,000 libel suit alleging that he had been falsely accused of murder by a flock of civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King. Predictably, the defendants moved for dismissal on the ground that the Times doctrine stripped Gilligan of any cause for action. Predictably, Gilligan's lawyer, Roy M. Cohn, countered by claiming that the doctrine does not apply to a minor, nonelected government...