Defamation, Libel Tourism and the SPEECH Act of 2010:  The First Amendment Colliding with the Common Law
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reputation management, 299

Restatement (Second) of Torts

newsworthiness, 212

privacy, 283

publisher’s standard of care, 212

reputation, 212

Reynolds v. Times Newspapers, Ltd.

burdens of proof, 206

centrality of reasonableness, 104

choice of forum, 266–268

claimant’s side of the story, 104

combination with Lange (2000), 268

compared to Harte-Hanks, 215, 269, 297

compared to New York Times, 207–227

flexibility, 160

Flood v. Times Newspapers, Ltd, 106–107

free speech as an exception to defamation, 103

free speech theory, 98

generally, 45–48

instrumental free speech, 107

marketplace of ideas, 107, 226

political speech, 163

preponderance of evidence burden, 219

presumptions, 206

public status of claimant not relevant, 103

scope similar to Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, 104

success as a defence, 106

summary of principles, 206–207

ten factors of reasonable journalism, 47–48

theoretical breadth, 103

Uniform Act, 226

right of reply

Brennan, Justice William, 116

Miami Herald v. Tornillo, 108–109, 116

public figures and public officials, 104

rejected in US, 108–109

Reynolds, 104

truth and democracy free speech theory, 104, 109

Roberts v. Gable, 62, 140

Roe v. Wade, 281–282

Rosenbloom v. Metromedia

ad hoc determinations of public interest, 117–118

content based approach, 25–26

dissent of Justice Thurgood Marshall, 117, 121, 154

divided court, 26, 115

free speech theory, 117, 129

Mill’s truth theory of free speech, 115

reversed by Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 26

scope of protected publications, 209

Sarei v. Rio Tinto, 266n49

Sarl Louis Feraud International v. Viewfinder, Inc., 184n23, 204–205

Scanlon, Thomas, 9

free speech and individual dignity, 10

Schauer, Frederick

American distrust of government, 102, 108, 298

defining in and defining out free speech, 217–218, 227

public interest in information, 112

slander. See defamation