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GOVT 280-001New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254Parties: New York Times Company, Petitioner, v. L. B. Sullivan, Respondent. Counsel: Herbert Wechsler for petitioner. M. Roland Nachman, Jr. for respondent. Judges: Warren, Black, Douglas, Clark, Harlan, Brennan, Stewart, White, and Goldberg.Procedural History: A newspaper, the petitioner, sought a review of a decision by the Supreme Court of Alabama upholding a judgement awarding a public official, the respondent, damages in a civil libel action.Summary of Facts: Respondent, an elected official in Montgomery, Alabama, brought suit in a state court alleging that he had be libeled by an advertisement in corporate petitioners newspaper, the text of which appeared over the names of the four individual petitioners and many others. The advertisement included statements, some of which were false, about police action allegedly directed against students who participated in a civil rights demonstration and against a leader of the civ
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