Suing the press
By: Rodney A. Smolla.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Libel and slander -- United States -- Cases.; Press law -- United States -- Cases.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 259-267.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The thinning American skin; title: The trials of Martin Luther King : the New York times case; title: From chasing Communists to fighting Lillian Hellman : the libel suit as guerilla warfare; title: Ariel Sharon v. Time magazine : the libel suit as political forum, international style; title: "I read it in the Enquirer; title: Carol Burnett and Henry Kissinger!" : the Carol Burnett case; title: Jackie Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Clint Eastwood, and Mohammed Ali; title: of public personality and private property; title: From "touching" to "missing" : libel arising from fiction and docudrama; title: Of Vanessa Williams and Jerry Falwell : the contributions of Penthouse to the First Amendment; title: Mobil Oil meets the Washington Post : can investigative journalism ever be objective?; title: Westmoreland v. CBS : litigating the symbols and lessons of Vietnam; title: "I'm okay but you're sued."