HAY ABOGADOS QUE QUEIREN TUMBARLEEL DINERO AL PUEBLO CON ESTO NI A PRIMERA BASE LLEGA VEREMOS EL RETO ESTA HECHADO
Syllabus SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 376 U.S. 254 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA No. 39 Argued: January 6, 1964 --- Decided: March 9, 1964 Respondent, an elected official in Montgomery , Alabama , brought suit in a state court alleging that he had been libeled by an advertisement in corporate petitioner's newspaper, the text of which appeared over the names of the four individual petitioners and many others. The advertisement included statements, some of which were false, about police action allegedly directed against students who participated in a civil rights demonstration and against a leader of the civil rights movement; respondent claimed the statements referred to him because his duties included supervision of the police department. The trial judge instructed the jury that such statements were "libelous per se, " legal injury being implied without proof of actual damages