Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. : the story of a landmark libel case /

Main Author: Gertz, Elmer, 1906-2000.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gertz versus Robert Welch, Inc Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • I am defamed by the Birchers
  • The Birchers and the sixties
  • It began with a murder
  • The Nelsons sue Nuccio and the city
  • What to do?
  • I strike back
  • The laborious course of our case
  • First trial
  • The unraveling of a victory
  • The Supreme Court
  • Slowly, slowly creeps the case
  • A new trial: a resounding victory
  • An interminable case is terminated
  • The meaning of a landmark decision.