MMC 4200 Study Guide - Crime Spree, Goodfellas, Actual Malice
29 Oct 2014
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Jay near, an anti-semitic publisher of the saturday press, accused minneapolis police chief. Simon & schuster v. n. y. state crime victims board (review our class discussion, and danny. All about a mafia guy who wrote his story about being in the mafia. A summary of the case is already up on the class web site: read it and understand why the court struck it down as unconstitutional, it was a content based statute, so scrict scrutiny was applied. If it a content based regulation, they courts have to apply strict scrutiny: not overbroad, not vague, compelling government interest, narrowly tailored. New york times v. united states: dan ellsberg saw pentagon papers and felt that the americans were lied to. He illegally leaked the apers to the press. New york times v. sullivan: it revolutionized libel laws, making them subject to the first amendment and constitutional.
