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Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment

By anthony , New York Times Company;Sullivan , L. B;Lewis

Book information

Publisher
Vintage Books
ISBN
9780307787828, 0307787826, 9781299120785, 1299120784
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2501966 bytes)
Edition
1st Vintage books ed
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
etc;Libel and slander -- United States;Freedom ofetc;New York Times Company -- Trialsetc;SullivanL. B. -- TrialsLAW--Civil Procedure;LAW--Constitutional;LAW--Legalitigation

Description

The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libel -- and was awarded $500,000 by a local jury -- because the paper had published an ad critical of Montgomery's brutal response to civil rights protests. The centuries of legal precedent behind the Sullivan case and the U.S. Supreme Court's historic reversal of the original verdict are expertly chronicled in this gripping and wonderfully readable book by the Pulitzer Prize -- winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis. It is our best account yet of a case that redefined what newspapers -- and ordinary citizens -- can print or say. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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