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WILSON v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. L.A. 30316.

13 Cal.3d 652 (1975)

532 P.2d 116

119 Cal. Rptr. 468

OLIVER WENDELL WILSON et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; PHILIP E. WATSON, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 4, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Freeman, Kelso & Young and Nancy Kelso for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Simon, Sheridan, Murphy, Thornton & Hinerfeld, John D. Cahill and Michael R. Rogers for Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

In Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (1974) 418 U.S. 323, 325 [41 L.Ed.2d 789, 797, 94 S.Ct. 2997], Justice Powell began by observing that "This Court has struggled for nearly a decade to define the proper accommodation between the law of defamation and the freedoms of speech and press protected by the First Amendment." Growing public awareness of the need for integrity in the...

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