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Constitutional Law Keyed to Choper
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
Citation:
376 U.S. 254, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d 686 (1964).Only StudyBuddy Pro offers the complete Case Brief Anatomy*
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During the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, the New York Times published an ad for contributing donations to defend Martin Luther King, Jr. (King), after he was charged with perjury. The ad alleged that King’s arrest for perjury in Alabama was part of a campaign to destroy King’s efforts to integrate public facilities and discourage blacks from voting. The ad included statements, some of which were false, about police action directed against students who participated in a civil rights demonstration. Sullivan, the city police commissioner, claimed that these statements were in reference to him, because his duties included supervision of the police department.
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