New York Times v. United States : national security and censorship Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Decision Overview The Supreme Court of the United States held that Alabamas libel laws were wholly inadequate in terms of providing newspapers with the constitutional freedoms of speech and the press. United States Supreme Court. 1885, United States v.Washington Post Co. et al., on certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), the Supreme Court reversed a libel damages judgment against the New York Times. The Supreme Court ruled that it was constitutional to suppress Gitlow's speech in that instance because the state had a right to protect its citizens from violence. On this website we detail the events that occurred following the New York Times and the Washington Post publishing stories and excerpts of the Pentagon Papers. Respondent, an elected official in Montgomery, Alabama, brought suit in a state court alleging that he had been libeled by an @article{Vakil2003NewYT, title={New York Times Co., Inc. v. Tasini: A Rational United States Supreme Court Ruling on the Rights of Freelance Authors? 40, Abernathy et al. New York Times Co., Inc. v. Tasini: A Rational United States Supreme Court Ruling on the Rights of Freelance Authors? New York Times Co. v. United States (2018) The story of the Supreme Court case about the Pentagon Papers, as dramatized in the new film The Post. New York Times v. United States, Find Law; Activity. New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, legal case in which, on March 9, 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously (90) that, for a libel suit to be successful, the complainant must prove that the offending statement was made with actual malicethat is, with knowledge that it In what is regarded as one of the most significant prior restraint cases in history, the Supreme Court, in a New York v. United States. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 77 S.Ct. Corpus ID: 153733474. New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the freedom of speech protections in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution restrict the ability of American public officials to sue for defamation. Doug Mills/The New York Times. In 1971, the New York Times and the Washington Post attempted to publish the contents of a classified study, entitled History of U.S. Richard Goldstein, Fred Korematsu Obituary, New York Times , April 1, 2005. Legal definition of New York Times Co. v. United States: popularly The Pentagon Papers Case, 407 U.S. 713 (1971), removed an injunction against the New York Times designed to stop publication of classified government documents known as the Pentagon Papers. New York Times v. Background: In 1960, the New York Times ran a full-page advertisement paid for by civil right activists. North Carolina, 317 U. S. 287, 317 U. S. 291-292; see Yates v. United States, 354 U. S. 298, 354 U. S. 311-312; Cramer v. United States, 325 U. S. 1, 325 U. S. 36, n. 45. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. The New York Times thereafter filed a writ of certiorari before the Supreme Court of the United States, which was accepted. Decision-Making Process on Viet Nam Policy.' 2d 120, 1992 U.S. Brief Fact Summary. New York Times v United States 1971 Facts of this case - In what became lnown as the "Pentagon Paper Case" the Nixion Administration attempted to prevent the New York Tims and Washinginton post from the materials belonging to the Defense Department study regarding the United New