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Litigation

Oct. 14, 2000

Cyberspeech

When I was a young media lawyer, the United States Supreme Court decided Gertz v. Robert Welch Inc., 418 U.S. 323 (1974), and took a small step backward in its evolving recognition of the First Amendment's protection against liability for defamatory speech.

By Neil L. Shapiro
        When I was a young media lawyer, the United States Supreme Court decided Gertz v. Robert Welch Inc., 418 U.S. 323 (1974), and took a small step backward in its evolving recognition of the First Amendment's protection against liability for defamatory speech. Media representatives and counsel, losing sight of the fact that, only a decade earlier, the same court had removed defama...

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