Gorsuch and Thomas Call to Revisit Landmark First Amendment Case
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter
CNN
July 2, 2021
(CNN)Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch on Friday said the Supreme Court should revisit the breadth of the landmark First Amendment decision in New York Times v. Sullivan and explore how it applies to social media and technology companies.
That 1964 ruling created a higher bar for public figures to claim libel and has been a bedrock of US media law, but the two conservative justices said it's time to take another look.
"Since 1964," Gorsuch wrote Friday, "our Nation's media landscape has shifted in ways few could have forseen."
That 1964 ruling created a higher bar for public figures to claim libel and has been a bedrock of US media law, but the two conservative justices said it's time to take another look.
"Since 1964," Gorsuch wrote Friday, "our Nation's media landscape has shifted in ways few could have forseen."
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