 | Philippines - Law - 1998 - 190 pages
...prohibits a public afficial from recovering damages for a defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made...reckless disregard of whether it was false or not'. The United States Supreme Court went further in Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, where such immunity... | |
 | Philippines - Law - 1997 - 200 pages
...prohibits a public official from recovering damages for a defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made...'actual malice' — that is, with knowledge that it was fab:c or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not" (page 562, Constitutional Law, Miriam... | |
 | Education - 1916 - 712 pages
...considered libelous. The court said there was no evidence that the newspaper published the letter with the knowledge that it was false or with "reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." / In Florida, a law which excluded administrators from membership in professional education associations... | |
 | Labor laws and legislation - 1969 - 810 pages
...by public officials against critics of their official conduct: no damages should be allowed unless the statement was made with " 'actual malice' —...reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.'' TIME DOES NOT PERMIT me to elaborate the views on these issues which I have set forth elsewhere over... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - United States - 1964 - 1048 pages
...prohibits a public official from recovering damages for a defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made...whether it was false or not." (376 US at 279-280.) 2. The above Federal rule is clearly applicable to broadcast stations. A public official could not... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1964 - 948 pages
...relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made Opinion of the Court. 376 US with "actual malice" — that is, with knowledge that...reckless disregard of whether it was false or not. An oft-cited statement of a like rule, which has been adopted by a number of state courts,20 is found... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1964 - 954 pages
...Brant, Seditious Libel: Myth and Reality, 39 NYUL Rev. 1. GOLDBERG, J., concurring in result. 376 US 'actual malice' — that is, with knowledge that it...reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." Ante, at 279-280. The Court thus rules that the Constitution gives citizens and newspapers a "conditional... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1965 - 1052 pages
...public official for criticism of his official conduct, to an award of damages for a false statement "made with 'actual malice' — that is, with knowledge...whether it was false or not." 376 US, at 279-280. At the outset, we must decide whether, in view of the differing history and purposes of criminal libel,... | |
 | Martin H. Redish - Law - 2001 - 342 pages
...order to recover damages, must demonstrate that a false statement was made with '"actual malice'—that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not."" 6 The standard's original premise was the need to insulate speakers from libel damages to insure that... | |
 | John W. Johnson - Law - 2001 - 536 pages
...successful in such litigation, the public figure must demonstrate that the offending statement was made "with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." Counsel for Reverend Falwell argued, however, that a different standard should apply in this case,... | |
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The constitutional guarantees require, we think, a federal rule that prohibits a public official from recovering damages for a defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made with "actual malice" —... 
