Lester Sullivan
Lester Sullivan
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that established the actual malice standard, which has to be met before press reports about public officials can be considered to be defamation and libel; and hence allowed free reporting of the civil rights campaigns in the southern United States. It is one of the key decisions supporting the freedom of the press. The actual malice standard requires that the plaintiff in a...
society turned upside
It's the one day when all of society is turned upside down.