The grades on individual answers will be weighted in accordance with the suggested time allotments. If you find it necessary to make any assumptions of facts in answering a question, state what they are. Think before you write. Explain your answers, and be sure that they are directly responsive to the questions. There is a premium on succinctness, organization and adequate prose.
Legibility also helps.
In 1998 ABC's NOW was found by a Federal jury in Freedonia to have trespassed and committed fraud while researching a 1997 segment about the WOW grocery chain. In interviews in the days following the verdict, the jurors insisted that they had no objection to ABC's use of hidden cameras but that committing fraud in the course of news gathering was illegal, and that WOW therefore deserved to win and NOW deserved not to win. Discuss any, or all, First Amendment issues that may be presented in this mega-million dollar verdict. You are legal counsel to a great metropolitan newspaper the Freedonia Free Press, Standard, Banner and Star. It is the position of the United States that Castro is an international outlaw, who sponsors terrorist organizations and engages in brutal atrocities on his own population.