Legal Opinion
Cline v. Brown
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
Decided December 18, 1974No. 7421SC808PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MORRIS, Judge.
Defendant Brown contends that plaintiff’s action is barred by the decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed. 2d 686 (1964), which held that the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution delimit a State’s power to award damages to a public official in a suit for libel based upon defamatory criticism of his official conduct without proof that the defendant acted with actual malice—that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false. The Court there held that the Chief of Police…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Time, Inc. v. PapeSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Henry v. CollinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by23 opinions
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