A case in which the Court held that the First Amendment protects freedom of speech and freedom of the press, even about the conduct of politicians, ...

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that the freedom of speech protections in the First ... 50th anniversary · Further developments · References

Held: A State cannot, under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, award damages to a public official for defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct ...

Decision: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of the newspaper. The Court said the right to publish all statements is protected under the ...

The Court held that the First Amendment protects newspapers even when they print false statements, as long as the newspapers did not act with “actual malice.”

The jury ruled in his favor and the defendants were required to pay $500,000. On appeal the defendants argued that Sullivan's suit violated the First Amendment, ...

Sullivan was a defamation case decided in the throes of the Civil Rights Movement that was then surging throughout the United States.

18 мар. 2024 г. · The Sullivan decision not only reversed LB Sullivan's judgment but turned back the segregationists' “libel attack.” It freed the press to report fully and ...

Sullivan, a Montgomery city commissioner, sued the Times for defamation on the basis that as a supervisor of the police, statements in the ad were personally ...