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The Editor and the Law

• The Legal System

• The First Amendment

• Libel

• Defenses against Libel

• Constitutional Defenses

• Privacy

• Defenses against Invasion of Privacy Charges

• News Gathering

• Constant Vigilance

 

Editors today live in a world of litigation. The United States has become a society that places increasing reliance on the judicial system. Our law schools are graduating more lawyers than many legal experts believe are necessary to service the system. Congress, the federal bureaucracy, state legislatures, and city and county governments continue to fill volumes of statute books with new laws and regulations. Citizens are turning to the courts more frequently for redress of their grievances. Editors find themselves ...

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