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You Have The Right To Criticize This Casenote: Protecting Negative Reviews Within The Law Of Defamation And The First Amendment, David C. Vogel
You Have The Right To Criticize This Casenote: Protecting Negative Reviews Within The Law Of Defamation And The First Amendment, David C. Vogel
Missouri Law Review
In Moldea v. New York Times Co., the District of Columbia Court of Appeals attempted to determine under what circumstances a statement labeled as opinion may be the basis for a defamation suit. The court approached the topic with some difficulty, as the United States Supreme Court's 1990 decision in Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. had created confusion in lower courts over not only the validity of several traditional tests used to distinguish between fact and opinion, but also as to whether placing statements in an opinion context provides them with blanket protection from liability, regardless of their content. The …
First Amendment And Private Property: A Sign For Free Speech, The, Anthony J. Durone, Melissa K. Smith
First Amendment And Private Property: A Sign For Free Speech, The, Anthony J. Durone, Melissa K. Smith
Missouri Law Review
Freedom of speech is one of the best known of all the constitutional rights protected by the Bill of Rights. Freedom of speech has received special attention from the courts for at least three reasons: (1) it is essential to the political process that is the foundation of our democracy;3 (2) it is fundamentally important to the discovery of truth in the free marketplace of ideas;4 and (3) it is an end in itself in a free country. In furtherance of a substantial interest, however, the freedom of speech falls subject to the police power of the state. In City …
Civil Rico, Protesters, And The First Amendment: A Constitutional Combination, Timothy S. Millman
Civil Rico, Protesters, And The First Amendment: A Constitutional Combination, Timothy S. Millman
Missouri Law Review
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO") provides for both government causes of action and a private cause of action. The private cause of action is usually referred to as civil RICO In recent years, abortion clinics and other groups have used civil RICO in suits against violent protesters. The circuits had disagreed, however, on whether RICO requires the defendant to be economically motivated. The circuits had disagreed, however, on whether RICO. Therefore, abortion clinics and other potential plaintiffs were uncertain whether civil RICO was a viable option in suits against politically or religiously motivated protesters. Although the Court …
Anonymous Campaign Literature And The First Amendment, Erika Lietzan
Anonymous Campaign Literature And The First Amendment, Erika Lietzan
Faculty Publications
Presently, forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have statutes that require the disclosure of some party's identity (for example, an author or a sponsor) on political literature pertaining to elections. The most common explanations given for these statutes are that they deter fraud and libel in the election arena and that they provide valuable information to the voters. Because these statutes regulate core political speech, however, they necessarily implicate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Although campaign disclosure laws have been both struck down and sustained by state courts reviewing appealed convictions, the decisions have been disappointingly …