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Illustration on government oppression of free speech by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Undoing Times v. Sullivan will crush press freedom and favor those in power

By Andrew P. Napolitano

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2010 file photo, Courtney Love of the U.S. band Hole performs at the Sluzewiec Racing Track in Warsaw, Poland. Love hadn’t been born and tweeting was reserved for birds when The New York Times won a landmark libel case at the Supreme Court in 1964. But when a California jury decided recently that Love shouldn’t have to pay $8 million for a troublesome tweet about her former lawyer, she became just the latest person to lean on New York Times v. Sullivan, a case decided 50 years ago Sunday, and the cases that followed and expanded it. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File)

At 50, landmark libel case relevant in digital age

By JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press