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Indianapolis Police Officer Sues NFL For Defamation in Anti-Racism Campaign

JonathanTurley

to prevent the commission of a forcible felony; ?or. The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision decades ago in New York Times v. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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The Land that Law Forgot: The Supreme Court and the New York Legal Wasteland

JonathanTurley

Here is the column: In 1976, Saul Steinburg’s hilarious “View of the World from 9th Avenue” was published on the cover of the New Yorker. The map showed Manhattan occupying most of the known world with wilderness on the other side of the Hudson River between New York and San Francisco. In Gonzalez v.

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