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A Major Supreme Court First Amendment Decision Could be at Risk

Without New York Times vs. Sullivan, freedom of speech and the press could be drastically truncated.

by Samantha Barbas via Made By History on July 13, 2021

Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan

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M. Roland Nachman Jr., William P. Rogers and Herbert Wechsler, the lawyers in "New York Times v. Sullivan."

Keeping Speech Robust and Free

Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News' coverage of claims that the company had rigged the 2020 election may soon become an artifact of a vanished era.

by Jeffrey Toobin via New York Review of Books on July 7, 2023

A microphone animated as a black snake.

The Dark Side of Defamation Law

A revered Supreme Court ruling protected the robust debate vital to democracy—but made it harder to constrain misinformation. Can we do better?

by Jeannie Suk Gersen via The New Yorker on May 11, 2023

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw dodging a camera, 1909.

Overexposed

What happened to privacy when Americans gained easy access to cameras in the Gilded Age?

by Sohini Desai via HNN on July 2, 2024

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