Legality of Cannabis by U.S. Jurisdiction

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Renowned chemistry professor, winner of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize, publicly asserting a position concerning the promotion of a nuclear test ban treaty

- in Adams v. Frontier Broadcasting Company, 1976 and 2 similar citations

The actual malice standard subsequently was extended to suits involving libel against public figures other than elected officials.

- in Drotzmanns, Incorporated v. McGraw-Hill, Incorporated, 1974 and 2 similar citations

In fact, courts reading the Supreme Court opinions anticipated the extension of New York Times to public figures even before Curtis Publishing Co.

- in Libel, slander, and related problems and 2 similar citations

"By no proper test of reckless disregard was St. Amant's broadcast a reckless publication about a public officer. Nothing referred to by the Louisiana courts indicates an awareness by St. Amant of the probable falsity of Albin's statement about Thompson. Failure to investigate does not in itself establish bad faith." ******

- in Bishop v. Wometco Enterprises, Inc., 1970 and one similar citation

Walker, a companion case (prominent retired general taking part in effort to resist desegregation of the University of Mississippi)(compare opinion of Harlan, J. with that of Warren, CJ).

- in Lewis v. Vallis, 1970 and one similar citation

For example, Linus Pauling, a Nobel prize winning research scientist, was considered to be a public figure for defamation purposes when he led an international movement to stop nuclear bomb testing.

- in Liability of Individuals Who Serve on Panels Reviewing Allegations of … and one similar citation

In the case brought by Professor Linus Pauling against the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the Eighth Circuit held that a statement that Professor Pauling had been cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to give the names of persons who had helped him to organize his antibomb campaign, was privileged-if not a deliberate lie

- in The Right to Know: Fair Comment-Twentieth Century and one similar citation

—held that although Pauling was not a public official, "by his public statements and actions [he projected] himself into the arena of public controversy and into the very `vortex of the discussion of a question of pressing public concern'").

- in Bavarian Motor v. Manchester, 1969 and one similar citation

Bresler's status thus clearly fell within even the most restrictive definition of a "public figure."

- in Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. Bresler, 1970 and one similar citation

Various aspects of the Missouri law of defamation have received the careful attention of this court in previous cases.

- in Cervantes v. Time, Inc., 1972 and one similar citation