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...Jury nullification is American dissent, as old and as heralded as the 1735 trial of John Peter Zenger, who was acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, and absent a government capable of repairing injustices, it is legitimate protest. If some few episodes of a television entertainment have caused others to reflect on the war zones we have created in our cities and the human beings stranded there, we ask that those people might also consider their conscience. And when the lawyers or the judge or your fellow jurors seek explanation, think for a moment...
...book. “But one was very much more dangerous than the other.” White intellectual protest was one thing. This time, black slaves were allegedly plotting the murder of the white people. This was too much. And the government, still reeling from the Zenger trial and the vocal white opposition of the 1730s, responded with a ruthless repression of the city’s blacks...
Calling its editors "the modern equivalents of Thomas Paine or John Peter Zenger," the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court struck down a libel suit against the Let's Go travel guide and Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) March...
...This is not another [John Peter] Zenger case," Murphy said, referring to the famous case that helped define a free press. "It's a case where two students had a responsibility and the advisor didn't feel they carried it out. It's not more grandiose than that. They were not disciplined beyond that. That would be overkill," Murphy said...
Fairchild Republic is now sending 93 supervisors from the plant through the Zenger-Miller course, which meets for one three-hour session every other week. Participants memorize guidelines like "Calmly describe the employee's behavior which concerns you," and "Express supportend, reassurance...