Perspective
Sep. 30, 2011
The man behind New York Times v. Sullivan
The story of L.B. Sullivan and how he became the catalyst for one of the most memorable decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history. By Kermit L. Hall and Melvin I. Urofsky
When The New York Times published a full-page advertisement accusing the governor of Alabama and others in office of wantonly and willfully mistreating Martin Luther King and other civil rights activists, Montgomery, Ala. public safety commissioner L.B. Sullivan and others filed suit for defamation. In "New York Times v. Sullivan: Civil Rights, Libel Law, and the Free Press," Kermit Hall and Melvin U...
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