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MASSON v. NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, INC.

No. 89-1799.

501 U.S. 496 (1991)

MASSON v. NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, INC., ET AL.

Supreme Court of the United States.

Decided June 20, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles O. Morgan, Jr., argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs was Paul Richard Kleven.

H. Bartow Farr III argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Paul M. Smith, Richard G. Taranto, Charles W. Kenady, and Karl Olson.*

JUSTICE KENNEDY delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this libel case, a public figure claims he was defamed by an author who, with full knowledge of the inaccuracy, used quotation marks to attribute to him comments he had not made. The First Amendment protects authors and journalists who write about public figures by requiring a plaintiff to prove that the defamatory statements were made with what we have called "actual malice," a term of art denoting deliberate...

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