Floyd Abrams
Floyd Abrams
Floyd Abramsis an American attorney at Cahill Gordon & Reindel. He is an expert on constitutional law, and many arguments in the briefs he has written before the United States Supreme Court have been adopted as United States Constitutional interpretative law as it relates to the First Amendment and free speech. He is the William J. Brennan Jr. Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University...
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ProfessionLawyer
CountryUnited States of America
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
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The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.
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The notes were redacted to omit everything but the notes taken concerning discussions with Libby about Plame.
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I tried to get a deal a year ago.
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a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well.
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It seems to me one thing to criticize her for certain errors in particular coverage, but it's deeply disturbing to see so many journalists ignore or discount the significant 1st Amendment battle she has just engaged in.
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The message you sent to me was viewed by Ms. Miller as inherently 'mixed,'
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At its core, ... a time had come when it was possible to resolve this. Judy had no desire to continue to endure life in the detention center.
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It was made very clear to me in discussions with Mr. Libby's counsel that he had personally approved and authorized Matthew Cooper fully to disclose everything about their conversations. I was satisfied that I had been given a direct and unequivocal assurance that Matt could testify and Libby had approved that.
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will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in.
This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.