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To: little jeremiah
I believe that the NYT v. Sullivan ruling in 1964 is the root case of the massive corruption we see today.

It must be overturned or the corruption will eventually return.

496 posted on 11/24/2019 8:10:29 AM PST by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: bankwalker

You’re kind to think we knew what you’re referencing..

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/376/254/

..”During the Civil Rights movement of the mid-20th century, the New York Times published a full-page ad for contributing donations to defend Martin Luther King, Jr. on perjury charges. The ad contained several minor factual inaccuracies, such as the number of times that King had been arrested and actions taken by the Montgomery, Alabama police. The city Public Safety commissioner, L.B. Sullivan, felt that the criticism of his subordinates reflected on him, even though he was not mentioned in the ad. Sullivan sent a written request to the Times to publicly retract the information, as required for a public figure to seek punitive damages in a libel action under Alabama law.

When the Times refused and claimed that they were puzzled by the request, Sullivan filed his libel action against the Times and a group of African-American ministers mentioned in the ad. A jury in state court awarded him $500,000 in damages. Curiously, the Times did eventually retract the ad’s statements when Alabama Governor John Patterson demanded it. The newspaper felt that, while Patterson also was not named in the ad, its comments reflected more directly on him because he represented the state of Alabama generally.”


506 posted on 11/24/2019 8:25:14 AM PST by bitt (I hired Donald Trump to fire people like Yovanovitch.)
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To: bankwalker

That would be the ruling that allows the media to lie, right?


518 posted on 11/24/2019 8:50:40 AM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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