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The Colonel's Finest Campaign: Robert R. Mccormick And Near V. Minnesota, Eric B. Easton
The Colonel's Finest Campaign: Robert R. Mccormick And Near V. Minnesota, Eric B. Easton
Federal Communications Law Journal
Media corporations and their professional and trade associations, as well as organizations such as Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the American Civil Liberties Union, regularly monitor litigation that implicates First Amendment values and decide whether, when, and how to intervene. But that was not always the case. While media companies have always lobbied and litigated in support of their business interests-antitrust, copyright, postal rates, taxes-litigation by the institutional press to create or avoid doctrinal precedent under the First Amendment began only in the late 1920s. Once the United States Supreme Court recognized the incorporation of the First …
Rehearsal For Media Regulation: Congress Versus The Telegraph-News Monopoly, 1866-1900, Menahem Blondheim
Rehearsal For Media Regulation: Congress Versus The Telegraph-News Monopoly, 1866-1900, Menahem Blondheim
Federal Communications Law Journal
In this Article, Menahem Blondheim presents a critical historical analysis of the dawn of communications regulation as it began with the evolution of domestic telegraphy and developed into a coherent link between 19th century technological, business, and social developments and twentieth century First Amendment thought. First, the Article examines the political and economic environment which led to the development of national telegraph and news networks, like Western Union and the Associated Press. The Author then proceeds to assess the role of the mid-to-late nineteenth century American legislature, and how the debate over telegraph and wire service regulation realigned the powers …
Veil Of Secrecy: Public Executions, Limitations On Reporting Capital Punishment, And The Content-Based Nature Of Private Execution Laws, Nicholas Levi
Veil Of Secrecy: Public Executions, Limitations On Reporting Capital Punishment, And The Content-Based Nature Of Private Execution Laws, Nicholas Levi
Federal Communications Law Journal
One issue that is often overlooked in the capital punishment debate is the policy to shield the public from the specifics of the application, administration, and resolution of the death sentence. First, this Note provides a brief historical and analytical account of capital punishment in this country, and ultimately argues that this historical backdrop forces courts to characterize regulations as content-based distinctions on free speech. Second, this Note provides a background of the methods of capital punishment from the time of the country's founding through the early parts of the twentieth century. Furthermore, this Note will address the emergence of …
Constitutional Law - First Amendment - Freedom Of Speech And Press - New York Times Standard Is Inapplicable To A Defamed Individual Who Is Neither A Public Official Nor A Public Figure, And Only Actual Injury Is Compensable Absent Showing Of Actual Malice, William E. Molchen Ii
Villanova Law Review
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Further Limits On Libel Actions - Extension Of The New York Times Rule To Libels Arising From Discussion Of Public Issues, W. H. Flamm Jr.
Further Limits On Libel Actions - Extension Of The New York Times Rule To Libels Arising From Discussion Of Public Issues, W. H. Flamm Jr.
Villanova Law Review
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Freedom Of Speech And Press In America, By Edward G. Hudson, Ralph F. Fuchs
Freedom Of Speech And Press In America, By Edward G. Hudson, Ralph F. Fuchs
Indiana Law Journal
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