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24 February 1988: U.S. Supreme Court Defends The Right to Satirize Pub lic Figures
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:15:15 GMT
I've been doing this kind of 'thing' on my blog at 00:01 every evening/morning, and I think its kind of important to remember some key dates in our past. Today is especially interersting: [snip] Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988) was a case argued before the United States Supreme Court. The decision strengthened free speech rights in relation to parodies of public figures by extending the "actual malice" test of New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964). The case was argued on December 2, 1987 and the Court handed down its decision on February 24, 1988 by a vote of 8 to 0. [snip] Links & graphic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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