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New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled the freedom of speech protections in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution restrict the ability of a public official to sue for defamation.
This term was adopted by the Supreme Court in its landmark 1964 ruling in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, [2] in which the Warren Court held that: . The constitutional guarantees require, we think, a Federal rule that prohibits a public official from recovering damages for a defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made with 'actual malice ...
Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul: 373 U.S. 132 (1963) Preemption, Dormant Commerce Clause: Silver v. New York Stock Exchange: 373 U.S. 341 (1963) duty of self-regulation imposed upon the New York Stock Exchange by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 did not exempt it from the antitrust laws: Ker v. California: 374 U.S. 23 (1963)
A report by him in The New York Times in 1960 about some factual errors in a week-old advertisement, appealing for funding to defend King in a Montgomery perjury case, sparked the New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. That decision limited the capacity of public officials to sue for defamation. [1] [3] [4]
Later in life, Sullivan served as director of the Eugene O'Neill National Critics Institute. Dan Sullivan, longtime Times theater critic and one of the nation's most read, dies Skip to main content
The Court held, on a 6–3 vote, in favor of Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, ruling that proof of "actual malice" was necessary in product disparagement cases raising First Amendment issues, as set out by the case of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964). The Court ruled that the First Circuit Court of Appeals had ...
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The image involved here is a reproduction of a full-page New York Times ad, originally published on 29 March 1960. The ad was the subject matter of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan a very important case in US Constitutional law, and so an image of the actual ad might well be considered "iconic" and "historically significant" It is surely not ...