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Make No Law
1) The jury’s verdict in Sullivan v. ...
STATE LIBEL LAW DISSES NEW YORK TIMES: TOP COP WINS
The mighty have fallen! ...
2) Discuss the similarities and the dissimilarities between the common law of Alabama as applied by the Alabama courts in Sullivan v. ... Alabama civil law concerning libels states that a publication is “libelous per se” if the words “tend to injure a person… in his reputation” or “ring [him] into public contempt. ...
At the outset, both the Alabama law and the Sedition Act of 1798 dealt with the right (or lack thereof) to criticize the government and public officials in the print media. ... The 1798 Sedition Act deals with such right as an issue of criminal law; Alabama law, as applied in the Sullivan case, dealt with the right to publish statements and to permit recovery for libel, a civil law issue. Both the Sedition Act and the Alabama law allowed a defendant the defense of truth. ...
Alabama law, however, was more repressive because once a statement was found libelous, there was a presumption that malice toward the public official was intended. ... As the High Court pointed out, the half-million-dollar judgment awarded in Sullivan was far greater than the maximum fine provided under Alabama’s criminal libel law and the 1798 Sedition Act.
Approximate Word count = 1031
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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