Legal Opinion
Time, Inc. v. Firestone
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 2, 1976No. 74-944PublishedCited by 586 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rehnquist
Petitioner is the publisher of Time, a weekly news magazine. The Supreme Court of Florida affirmed a *450$100,000 libel judgment against petitioner which was based on an item appearing in Time that purported to describe the result of domestic relations litigation between respondent and her husband. We granted certio-rari, 421 U. S. 909 (1975), to review petitioner’s claim that the judgment violates its rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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Respondent, Mary Alice Firestone, married Russell Firestone, the scion of one of America’s wealthier industrial…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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