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- Why did the Committee to Defend Martin Luther King and the
Struggle for freedom in the South run an editorial advertisement in
the New York Times?
- Who was L. B. Sullivan, and why did he claim that the ad in the
Times was defamatory?
- Why did the Times refuse to print a retraction of the ad, when
Sullivan asked for it?
- Why did Governor Patterson sue the four ministers from Alabama
along with the New York Times?
- Why did Sullivan provide a service of process to the Alabama
Secretary of State in his lawsuit?
- Anthony Lewis portrays Judge Walter B. Jones as unsympathetic to
the cause of the New York Times. What evidence does Lewis offer to
support this view?
- What must a plaintiff do in order to make a case for libel in
the courts?
- What issues did Judge Jones remove f rom the consideration of the
jury, and what issues did he dirett the jury to decide, in the case
of New York Times v. Sullivan?
- What was the jury's decision in the case of New York Times v.
Sullivan?
- What evidence does Lewis offer for his claim that the libel
suit against the New York Times was designed to intimidate the
Northern media from reporting on civil-rights issues in the South?
- Why would intimidation of the Northern press hurt the civil
rights movement in the 1960s?
- Prior to New York Times v. Sullivan, what was the Supreme
Court's position with regard to extending First Amendment
protection to libelous statements?
- What did the Alabama Supreme Court decide, on appeal, regarding
the case of New York Times v. Sullivan?
- Why does Lewis include a discussion of the Sedition Act in a
book on the case of New York Times v. Sullivan?
- Why does Lewis include a discussion in his book of the
dissenting opinions of Holmes and Brandeis in the Espionage Act
cases and the state cases involving criminal syndicalism?
- What is the relevance of the Supreme Court's decision in Near
v. Minnesota to the issues raised in New York Times v. Sullivan?
- What is the relevance of the Supreme Court's decision in
Bridges v. California to the issues raised in New York Times v.
Sullivan?
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