Critics question constitutionality of criminal libel laws
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In Kansas, two newspaper editors were recently convicted under the state's criminal libel law, the first criminal libel conviction anywhere in the country in nearly 30 years. In Utah, the state Supreme Court found that state's 126-year old criminal libel statute unconstitutional. The two cases have resulted in much criticism of criminal libel laws as egregious violations of freedom of speech.
Publication Name: News Media & the Law
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 2003
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Public hospital is forced by state supreme court to release employee information to newspaper
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The Idaho Supreme Court, in the case of Magic Valley Newspapers, Inc. v. Magic Valley Regional Medical Center decided that Idaho's Open Records Act required that a newspaper be allowed to examine the salary records of a public hospital.
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ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 2003
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