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New York Times Co. v. Sullivan 376 U.S. 254

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan 376 U.S. 254

376 U.S. 254 | 1964-03-09

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

376 U.S. 254

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (No. 39)

Argued: January 6, 1964
Decided: March 9, 1964

273 Ala. 656, 144 So.2d 25, reversed and remanded.

Syllabus

Respondent, an elected official in Montgomery, Alabama, brought suit in a state court alleging that he had been libeled by an advertisement in corporate petitioner's newspaper, the text of which appeared over the names of the four individual petitioners and many others. The advertisement included statements, some of which were false, about police action allegedly directed against students who participated in a civil rights demonstration and against a...