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Majority Opinion
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Rehnquist, C.J. |
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Dissenting Opinion
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Brennan, J. (joined by Marshall, J.) |
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Lower Court
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Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia |
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Lower Court Ruling
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First Amendment claim sustained |
| Lawyers |
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| Briefs |
For Dow Jones & Co: Robert D. Sack, Richard J. Tofel, Richard M. Schmidt, Jr., et al.
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For the ACLU: Henry R. Kaufman
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For the Ohio Newspaper Association: Louis A. Colombo & David L. Marburger
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| Opinion - Lower Court |
Milkovich v. News-Herald, 46 Ohio App. 3d 20, 545 N.E.2d 1320 (1989).
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| Other |
Carter, T. Barton, Dee, Juliet L. & Zuckman, Harvey L., MASS COMMUNICATIONS LAW (2000), pp. 102-104
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Dienes, Thomas & Levine, Lee, "Implied Libel, Defamatory Meaning & The State of Mind: The Promise of New York Times v. Sullivan," 778 Iowa Law Review 237 (1993)
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Franklin, Marc, ""Constitutional Libel Law: The Role of Content," 34 UCLA Law Review 1657 (1987)
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Note, "Eight Years After Milkovich: Applying A Constitutional Privilege for Opinions Under the Wrong Constitution," 31 Indiana Law Review 1101 (1998)
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Sack, Robert D., SACK ON DEFMATION: LIBEL, SLANDER & RELATED PROBLEMS (3rd ed., 2001), vol. I, sects. 4-13 - 4-22
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Shapo, Marshall, "Editorial: Fact/Opinion = Evidence/Argument," 91 Northwestern University Law Review 1108 (1997)
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Smolla, Rodney A., FREE SPEECH IN AN OPEN SOCIETY (1992), pp. 53, 374-35, 388
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Smolla, Rodney, SMOLLA & NIMMER ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH (1994), sect. 11.01[4]
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Sowle, "A Matter of Opinion," 3 William & Mary Law Review 467 (1994)
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Thomas, "A Pragmatic Approach to the Meaning of Defamation Law," 34 Wake Forest Law Review 333 (1999)
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