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[https://crdl.usg.edu/people/sullivan_l_b Sullivan], the Montgomery police commissioner, objected to the defamatory piece. | [https://crdl.usg.edu/people/sullivan_l_b Sullivan], the Montgomery police commissioner, objected to the defamatory piece. | ||
|procedural_history=Sullivan sued ''The New York Times'' in Alabama state court [https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/186/new-york-times-co-v-sullivan for libel]. (Libel is defamatory writing while slander is defamatory spoken words.) The trial judge ruled in Sullivan's favor. | |||
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|link=https://www.quimbee.com/cases/new-york-times-co-v-sullivan | |link=https://www.quimbee.com/cases/new-york-times-co-v-sullivan |
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New York Times v. Sullivan | |
Court | Supreme Court of the United States |
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Date decided | March 9, 1964 |
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Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. |
Facts
In 1960, a civil rights organization took out a page of advertisement in the New York Times. The ad accuses the opponents of civil rights of a "wave of terror." Namely, the Montgomery Police Department in Alabama was accused of targeting MLK with intimidation such as "They have arrested him 7 times-for “speeding.” “loitering”.
The Alabama police countered that there were false and inaccurate statements in the advertisement because the Alabama police never pad-locked the Alabama State College dining hall to starve the students, never arrested MLK 7 times for speeding, and so on. Other claims were exaggerated. Therefore, the article defamed the Alabama police departments.
Sullivan, the Montgomery police commissioner, objected to the defamatory piece.