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Gertz Vs. Robert Welch, Inc.
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- Jun 25, 1974
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Gertz v. RobertSearch
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Welch, Inc. - 418 U.S. 323 (1974) U.S. Supreme Court Gertz v. RobertSearch
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Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323 (1974) Gertz v. RobertSearch
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jury returned a verdict for petitioner, the District Court decided that the standard enunciated in New York Times Co. v. SullivanSearch
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of a public issue without regard to whether the person defamed is a public official as in New York Times Co. v. SullivanSearch
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supra, or a public figure, as in Curtis Publishing Co. v. ButtsSearch
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For these reasons, respondent argued, it was entitled to invoke the privilege enunciated in New York Times Co. v. SullivanSearch
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was either a public official under the New York Times decision or a public figure under Curtis Publishing Co. v. ButtsSearch
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This conclusion anticipated the reasoning Page 418 U. S. 330 of a plurality of this Court in Rosenbloom v. MetromediaSearch
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because the article concerned a matter of public interest, citing this Court's intervening decision in Rosenbloom v. MetromediaSearch
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Beckley Newspapers Corp. v. HanksSearch
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by those statements. The Court considered this question on the rather different set of facts presented in Rosenbloom v. MetromediaSearch
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warrant the protection from liability for defamation accorded by the rule originally enunciated in New York Times Co. v. SullivanSearch
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This extension Page 418 U. S. 336 was announced in Curtis Publishing Co. v. ButtsSearch
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and its companion, Associated Press v. WalkerSearch
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at 388 U. S. 164 (Warren, C.J., concurring in result). In his opinion for the plurality in Rosenbloom v. MetromediaSearch
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because most public officials enjoyed absolute immunity from liability for their own defamatory utterances under Barr v. MatteoSearch
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debate on public issues. New York Times Co. v. SullivanSearch
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Chaplinsky v. NewSearch
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statements does not accord adequate protection to First Amendment liberties. As the Court stated in New York Times Co. v. SullivanSearch
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broadcasters enjoy an unconditional and indefeasible immunity from liability for defamation. See New York Times Co. v. SullivanSearch
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Curtis Publishing Co. v. ButtsSearch
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essential to their fruitful exercise. NAACP v. ButtonSearch
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publishers and broadcasters of defamatory falsehood concerning public officials and public figures. New York Times Co. v. SullivanSearch
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of government is not strictly limited to the formal discharge of official duties. As the Court pointed out in Garrison v. LouisianaSearch
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whose content did not warn a reasonably prudent editor or broadcaster of its defamatory potential. Cf. Time, Inc. v. HillSearch
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Times may recover only such damages as are sufficient to compensate him for actual injury. Page 418 U. S. 351 V NotwithstandingSearch
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e may also assume that the article's basic thesis is false. Nevertheless, under the reasoning of New York Times Co. v. SullivanSearch
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its own files did not establish reckless disregard for the truth. 376 U.S. at 376 U. S. 287 -288. In St. Amant v. ThompsonSearch
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In Beckley Newspapers Corp. v. HanksSearch
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in the traditional sense of ill will. Garrison v. LouisianaSearch
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Id. at 379 U. S. 77 . Finally, in Rosenblatt v. BaerSearch
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In Time, Inc. v. HillSearch
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state interest in the protection of the individual against damage to his reputation would be involved. Cf. Rosenblatt v. BaerSearch
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Post at 418 U. S. 392 (emphasis added). MR. JUSTICE WHITE characterizes New York Times Co. v. SullivanSearch
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libel. Post at 418 U. S. 387 . But that rationale is certainly inapplicable to Curtis Publishing Co. v. ButtsSearch
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but the full thrust of his dissent -- as we read it -- contradicts that suggestion. Finally, in Rosenbloom v. MetromediaSearch
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Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. TornilloSearch
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MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN, concurring. I joined MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN's opinion for the plurality in Rosenbloom v. MetromediaSearch
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Inc., 403 U. S. 29 (1971). I did so because I concluded that, given New York Times Co. v. SullivanSearch
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U.S. Supreme Court Gertz v. RobertSearch
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Beckley Newspapers Corp. v. HanksSearch
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See New York Times Co. v. SullivanSearch
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