Legal Opinion
Bradbury v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided October 1, 1996No. Docket Nos. B101185, B098366PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
YEGAN, J.
J(la) “[T]he great principles of the Constitution which secure freedom of expression . . . preclude attaching adverse consequences to any except the knowing or reckless falsehood. Debate on public issues will not be uninhibited if the speaker must run the risk that it will be proved in court that he spoke out of hatred; even if he did speak out of hatred, utterances honestly believed contribute to the free interchange of ideas and the ascertainment of truth.” (Garrison v. Louisiana (1964) 379 U.S. 64, 73 [13 L.Ed.2d 125, 132, 85 S.Ct. 209].) Here utterances by a district…
2Cases cited30 opinions
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