Legal Opinion
Rosenblatt v. Baer
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 21, 1966No. 38PublishedCited by 1,041 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
A jury in New Hampshire Superior Court awarded respondent damages in this civil libel action based on one of petitioner’s columns in the Laconia Evening Citizen. Respondent alleged that the column contained defamatory falsehoods concerning his performance as Supervisor of the Belknap County Recreation Area, a facility owned and operated by Belknap County. In the interval between the trial and the decision of petitioner’s appeal by the New Hampshire Supreme Court, we decided New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U. S. 254. We there held that consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments a…
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