The New York Times for libel for full-page advertisement accusing Montgomery police of numerous civil rights violations.
Some facts are wrong.
U.S. Supreme Court reverses. Court also delineates the type of sloppy journalism that constitutes reckless disregard of the facts. In companion case to Butts, AP reporter files eyewitness account of how retired army General Edwin Walker had encouraged rioters' violence during integration of the University of Mississippi in 1962. Journal News accuses judicial candidate Daniel Connaughton of conspiring to blackmail incumbent judge, whom newspaper endorsed. Connaughton sues for libel.