Legal Opinion
Monitor Patriot Co. v. Roy
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 24, 1971No. 62PublishedCited by 501 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
On September 10, 1960, three days before the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s primary election of candidates for the United States Senate, the Concord Monitor, a daily newspaper in Concord, New Hampshire, published a syndicated “D. C. Merry-Go-Round” column discussing the forthcoming election. The column spoke of political maneuvering in the primary campaign, referred to the criminal records of several of the candidates, and characterized Alphonse Roy, one of the candidates, as a “former small-time bootlegger.”1 Roy was not *267elected in the primary, and he subsequently sued the Monitor Patriot…
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