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What The Lawyers Who Sue The Press Think Of The Press, And Media Law, Jonathan Peters
What The Lawyers Who Sue The Press Think Of The Press, And Media Law, Jonathan Peters
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“HAVE A SCORE TO SETTLE WITH THE PRESS? Charles Harder, the media lawyer who ground Gawker.com to dust, is your man.”
That was the subhead of a GQ profile of Harder published in 2016, after he won a $140 million jury verdict for Hulk Hogan against Gawker (later settled for $31 million). The profile went on to say that Harder had established himself “as perhaps the greatest threat in the United States to journalists, the First Amendment, and the very notion of a free press.”
Whether or not that’s true, Harder has said it would be “awesome” if the Gawker …
Don’T Expect The First Amendment To Protect The Media, Ronnell Anderson Jones, Sonja R. West
Don’T Expect The First Amendment To Protect The Media, Ronnell Anderson Jones, Sonja R. West
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Op-ed in the New York Times about the limits on the protection of the press under the First Amendment.