Legal Opinion
Palin v. New York Times Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 29, 2017No. 17-cv-4853 (JSR)PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
JED S. RAKOFF, U.S.D.J.
Nowhere is political journalism so free, so robust, or perhaps so rowdy as in the United States. In the exercise of that freedom, mistakes will be made, some of which will be hurtful to others. Responsible journals will promptly correct their errors; others will not. But if political journalism is to achieve its constitutionally endorsed role of challenging the powerful, legal redress by a public figure must be limited to those cases where the public figure has a plausible factual basis for complaining that the mistake was made maliciously, that is,…
2Cases cited36 opinions
- Ashcroft v. IqbalSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
- Bell Atlantic Corp. v. TwomblySupreme Court of the United States · 2007
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- St. Amant v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Garrison v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Hughes v. Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc.District Court, S.D. Illinois · 2018
- Resolute Forest Prods., Inc. v. Greenpeace Int'lDistrict Court, N.D. California · 2017
- Palin v. The New York Times CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2019
- Fairbanks v. RollerDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2018
- Palin v. The New York Times CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2019
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