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Constitutional Law Keyed to Rotunda
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
Citation:
376 U.S. 254 (1964)
ProfessorMelissa A. Hale
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Respondent Sullivan, a Commissioner of the City of Montgomery, Alabama, alleged that he had been libeled by statements in a full-page advertisement that was carried in the New York Times. In the advertisement, though none of the statements mentioned respondent by name, he contended that the word “police” referred to him as the Montgomery Commissioner, who supervised the Police Department, so that he was being accused of “ringing” the campus with police when the Black students sang “My Country, Tis of Thee.” Under Alabama law, a publication is libelous if the words tend to injure a person in his reputation or to bring him into public contempt.
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