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Justice White, Dissent in Gertz (Main) correct answers "For some 200 years—from the very founding of the Nation—the law of defamation and right of the ordinary citizen to recover for false publication injurious to his reputation have been almost exclusively the business of state courts and legislatures." Justice White, Dissent in Gertz correct answers - "[s]cant, if any, evidence exists that the First Amendment was intended to abolish the common law of libel, at least to the extent of depriving ordinary citizens of meaningful redress against their defamers." Justice Jackson on State Constitutions adoption correct answers Beauharnais v. People of State of Ill. (1952) Smith v. Tribune Company, 22 F. Cas. 689 (C.C.N.D. Ill. 1867) correct answers "That would be allowing the license of a public journalist to go further, I think, than any adjudicated case would warrant. We all desire the entire freedom of the press, but it has never been understood as authorizing the bringing of charges against a man of his having committed a crime, unless those charges were true." McKee v. Cosby, 874 F.3d 54 (1st Cir. 2017) correct answers A woman who's reputation was tarnished for seeking justice from her raper. Opposing Counsel attorney wrote letter for the purpose of destroying her reputation. Court denied Cert on the issue. Berisha v. Lawson, 973 F.3d 1304 (11th Cir. 2020) correct answers Man was only in public controversy because author linked him to the Albanian mob in book. Man did nothing but defend himself from a defamatory statement, he took no other action in the public sphere. Coral Ridge Ministries Media, Inc. v. A, Inc., 6 F.4th 1247 (11th Cir. 2021) correct answers - A Christian non-profit that was publicly labeled a hate group, lumped in with the KKK and Neo-nazis, and defamed by the SPLC Amazon refused to do business with them. Thomas dissent is in (2022). Hibdon v. Grabowski, 195 S.W.3d 48, 59, 62 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2005) correct answers (finding that an individual starting a jet ski business with a single instance of online advertising is a limited-purpose public figure). Smartmatic USA Corp. v. Newsmax Media, Inc., (Del. Super. Ct. Feb. 3, 2023) correct answers Three different states (NY would rule different on LPPF status than Florida and Delaware on LPPF status despite all deriving their rules from Gertz). Gorsuch Dissent correct answers Berisha v. Lawson, 210 L. Ed. 2d 991 (2021). Thomas Concurrence correct answers Mckee v. Cosby, 139 S.Ct. 675 (2019)