Legal Opinion
Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 25, 1986No. 84-1602PublishedCited by 132,823 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
In New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U. S. 254, 279-280 (1964), we held that, in a libel suit brought by a public official, the First Amendment requires the plaintiff to show that in publishing the defamatory statement the defendant acted with actual malice — “with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.” We held further that such actual malice must be shown with “convincing clarity.” Id., at 285-286. See also Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U. S. 323, 342 (1974). These New York Times requirements we have since extended to libel suits brought…
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