Legal Opinion
O'CONNOR v. Burningham
Utah Supreme Court
Decided July 31, 2007No. 20060090PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEHRING, Justice:
T1 More than forty years have passed since the United States Supreme Court placed public officials on notice that they could seek redress for defamatory statements made about them only if actual malice animated those statements. See N.Y. Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d 686 (1964) (involving a Montgomery, Alabama commissioner whose duties included the supervision of the police department). What the Court did not announce at the time, however, was the full roster of public officials, leaving considerable uncertainty over who qualified as a public…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- St. Amant v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Curtis Publishing Co. v. ButtsSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Garrison v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by29 opinions
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