TIME, INC. v. HILL

No. 22.

385 U.S. 374 (1967)

TIME, INC. v. HILL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Reargued October 18-19, 1966.

Decided January 9, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold R. Medina, Jr., reargued the cause for appellant. With him on the briefs was Victor M. Earle III.

Richard M. Nixon reargued the cause and filed a brief for appellee.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General, pro se, Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Assistant Attorney General, and Barry Mahoney and Brenda Soloff, Assistant Attorneys General, filed a brief for the Attorney General of the State of New York, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance.


MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question in this case is whether appellant, publisher of Life Magazine, was denied constitutional protections of speech and press by the application by the New York courts of §§ 50-51 of the New York Civil Rights Law1 to award appellee damages on allegations that Life falsely reported that a new play portrayed an experience...

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