Download or read book Media Success in the Supreme Court written by David A. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rights vs Responsibilities written by Elizabeth B. Hindman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-05-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past 65 years, the United States Supreme Court has outlined, through its decisions, its conceptions of the roles and responsibilities of the U.S. media. Analyzing every Supreme Court media case from 1931 to 1996, this book explores the changes in how the Court has conceived of the media's freedom. Hindman focuses on the educational and political functions of the media, the ethical principles of truth telling, and the conflict between collectivist and individualist interpretations of the First Amendment. The author challenges accepted views in the field, arguing that despite the justices' rhetoric, the Court has treated media freedom as a social goal rather than a right.
Download or read book Justices and Journalists written by Richard Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justices and Journalists examines whether justices are becoming more publicity-conscious and why that might be happening. The book discusses the motives of justices 'going public' and details their recent increased number of television and print interviews and amount of press coverage of their speeches. The book describes the interactions justices have with the journalists who cover them. These interactions typically are not discussed publicly by justices or journalists. The book explains why justices care about press and public relations, how they employ external strategies to affect press portrayals of themselves and their institution, and how and why journalists participate in that interaction. Drawing on the papers of Supreme Court justices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book examines these interactions over the history of the Court. It includes a content analysis of print and broadcast media coverage of Supreme Court justices covering a 40-year period from 1968 to 2007.
Download or read book The Supreme Court in the Media written by David W. Leslie and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Media the Court and the Misrepresentation written by Rorie Spill Solberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Court’s decisions are interpreted and disseminated via the media. During this process, the media paints an image of the Court and its business. Like any artist, the media has license regarding what to cover and the amount of attention devoted to any aspect of the Court and its business. Some cases receive tremendous attention, while others languish on the back pages or are ignored. These selection effects create a skewed picture of the Court and its work, and might affect public attitudes toward the Court. Indeed, studies of media coverage of other governmental institutions reveal that when, and how, their policy decisions are covered has implications for the public’s understanding of, compliance with, support for, and cynicism about the policy. This book uncovers and describes this coverage and compares it to the confirmation hearings, the Court’s actual work, even its members. Rorie Spill Solberg and Eric N. Waltenburg analyze media coverage of nominations and confirmation hearings, the justices’ "extra-curricular" activities and their retirements/deaths, and the Court’s opinions, and compare this coverage to analyses of confirmation transcripts and the Court’s full docket. Solberg and Waltenburg contend that media now cover the Court and its personnel more similarly to its coverage of other political institutions. Journalists still regurgitate a mythology supported by the justices, a "cult of the robe," wherein unbiased and apolitical judges mechanically base their decisions upon the law and the Constitution. Furthermore, they argue the media also focus on the "cult of personality," wherein the media emphasize certain attributes of the justices and their work to match the public’s preferences for subject matter and content. The media’s portrayal, then, may undercut the Court’s legitimacy and its reservoir of good will.
Download or read book The Supreme Court and the Mass Media written by Douglas S. Campbell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1990-07-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents comprehensive summaries and clearly focused analyses of virtually all U.S. Supreme Court decisions on libel and privacy since 1964. The author goes beyond the obligatory outline and review of each case and presents the full arguments, often verbatim, of the justices. He presents each case in a broad based yet comprehensive summary allowing the reader to review and understand not just isolated and disjunctive points of law, but the case in its entirety. Covering such cases as the landmark Times v. Sullivan (1964) and the provocative and timely flag burning case of Texas v. Johnson (1989) this book is ideal for students of journalism, especially as a reference for courses in media law. Anyone interested in privacy and First Amendment issues will find The Supreme Court and the Mass Media a source of stimulating ideas. The case summaries are divided into six sections: historical background and legal context; immediate circumstances; narrative summary of the Court's opinion; ruling; narrative summary of concurring and dissenting opinions; significance of the case. The book places each case in its historical and legal context, often connecting particular issues to past and future decisions. More often than not the summaries of the decisions include the Court's own words allowing the reader an objective review.
Download or read book Mass Media and the Constitution written by Richard F. Hixson and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scope of this work is broad, including all free press and free speechcases from the early 19th century to the early 1980s. Summaries of approximately 300 US Supreme court decisions that bear upon the press, the Frist Amendment in particular, and the Constitution in general are included. Each entry includes the full name of the case, where the full decision may be found, a summary of the law established, summaries of both the majority opinion and the dissents, a list of prior decisions referred to in each case, and suggested further reading in scholarly as well as popular publications. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book The Supreme Court and the News Media written by David L. Grey and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Press as an Interest Group written by Eric Easton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There can be little doubt that the institutional press is an interest group to be reckoned with in the Supreme Court, its aversion to such a designation notwithstanding. Over the past century, and especially since 1964, the press has secured for itself the greatest legal protection available anywhere in the world. While some of that protection has come from Congress, by far the greatest share has come from the Supreme Court's expansive interpretation of the First Amendment's Press Clause. Although the role of the press in American politics has been studied extensively for nearly two centuries, the role of the press as a powerful interest group has yet to be examined in full. This quantitative study examines 100 U.S. Supreme Court decisions in which the mainstream media was a party litigant or amicus curiae. Among other findings, the study demonstrates that the press has been extremely successful in cases involving content regulation, but far less so in cases involving news gathering.
Download or read book Justice and the Media written by Matthew D. Bunker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USE THIS FIRST PARAGRAPH ONLY FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... The First Amendment right of free speech is a fragile one. Its fragility is found no less in legal opinions than in other, less specialized forms of public discourse. Both its fragility and its sometimes surprising resiliency are reflected in this book. It provides an examination of how the U.S. Supreme Court has dealt with the problem of restrictions on media coverage of the criminal justice system, as well as how lower courts have interpreted the law created by the Supreme Court. The author explores the degree to which the Court has created a coherent body of law that protects free expression values while permitting reasonable government regulation, and examines the Supreme Court's jurisprudence concerning prior restraints, post-publication sanctions on the press, and their right of access to criminal proceedings. This is a study of the evolution of constitutional doctrine -- particularly when transported from the rarefied air of the Supreme Court to lower court judges who may not share the values of the jurists above them in the judicial hierarchy. The book's greatest strength lies in its thorough analysis and critique of how judges apply First Amendment doctrine to the complex problem of providing for both a "free press" and "fair trials." Much of the available literature on this topic focuses on legal doctrine, but with attention to the legal rules that emerge from the courts, rather than examining and critiquing the judicial techniques that produce those rules. Moreover, although a significant body of scholarship has explored Supreme Court doctrine, this work is one of the few that trace the influence of those doctrines through lower federal court decisions. The hope is to produce a reasonably accurate -- if partial -- picture of how intermediate appellate and trial courts use U.S. Supreme Court doctrine to decide First Amendment cases. Note: This book is necessarily influenced by the 'round-the-clock' press coverage of the recent O.J. Simpson trial. Although the Simpson case did not make new law, the trial and its outcome seem to be -- at this writing -- an inescapable part of how many people think about these issues. The simple truth, however, is that the Simpson case was an anomaly that has little relation to the everyday concerns of media coverage of the criminal justice system. While the venerable "parade of horribles" can be an effective strategy for the legal advocate, it is not always the ideal way to address larger concerns, particularly when fundamental rights are at stake.
Download or read book The Taming of the Press written by Elliot Rothenberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cohen v. Cowles Media Company changed the course of First Amendment media law. After a quarter century of decisions interpreting the First Amendment to give media organizations preferential treatment, the Supreme Court ruled in 1991 that the Constitution did not give the press immunity from the laws ordinary citizens must obey. The American Bar Association quarterly Communications Lawyer (Spring 1998) calls Cohen a media law hall of fame case. The author, who was the plaintiff's sole attorney in all phases of the case, provides detailed analysis of the complexities of constitutional litigation and the strategic and tactical considerations involved in formulating constitutional arguments in the Supreme Court and other courts. This is a classic David v. Goliath story of a lone lawyer who worked out of his basement taking on media and legal giants and winning. Scores of attorneys from major law firms around the country represented the Minneapolis and St. Paul newspaper defendants and their allies in court in a case where experts were confident that the press could never lose. The Cohen decision has revolutionized the law regarding accountability for wrongdoing by media organizations, and many federal and state courts have relied upon the Cohen case in holding media organizations liable for their actions. This lively account will interest not only legal and media scholars, but all readers interested in correcting injustice.
Download or read book An Analysis of Sources in Journalism on the Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Supreme Court bUilding is intimidating, to say the least. The massive structure rises four stories above the ground and the three million dollars worth of white marble shines starkly against the blue sky.l The inscription "EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW" runs horizontally across the top of the impressive structure. This beautiful bUilding is part of the imagery associated with the Supreme Court. Along with black robes and gavels, the Supreme Court has carefully crafted the images that are connected with the justices and the Court. Unlike the leaders ofthe legislative and executive branches, the justices of the Supreme Court have historically chosen to avoid the harsh glare of the media. The Court has become largely a mysterious organization, requiring even their law clerks to commit to secrecy. In an era of massive amounts of constant information, an organization that has managed to keep their actions mostly secretive is bound to be shrouded in both mystery and misunderstanding. With such a great deal of mystery surrounding this aspect ofthe government, there is an open opportunity to affect how the Court is viewed through the influence of the media. Through our research, we will attempt to characterize more closely the nature of this influence. Looking specifically at how the issues of the Court are framed by the news media, we examine the presence of outside quotes in the press coverage of the Court, its decisions, or the Justices themselves. We find that these sources are not as frequently used in the news media as we had originally expected. We also found a general polarization in the opinions of the sources used.
Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Download or read book Supreme Court Compendium written by Lee Epstein and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Supreme Court Compendium is the only reference that presents historical and statistical information on every important aspect of the U.S. Supreme Court, including its history, development as an institution, the justices backgrounds, nominations, and confirmations, and the Court's relationship with the public and other governmental and judicial bodies. The newest edition of this comprehensive reference includes important new perspective on the legacy of the Rehnquist court. Readers will also find: An institutional overview of the Court's history including a chronology of important events from 1787-2006, important Congressional legislation relating to the Supreme Court, internet sites relating to law and courts, and much more Background information on all the justices such as family backgrounds, childhood environments, marital status, educational and employment histories, political experiences and trends in voting agreement The political and legal environment of the Court is presented including the success rate of the United States as a party before the Supreme Court, the rates of success of various administrative agencies, and state participation in court litigation with success rates This new edition includes more than 180 tables and charts and is updated to cover Supreme Court events through the 2005-2006 term. This reference is an invaluable resource to judicial scholars, students, and those interested in the history of the Supreme Court.
Download or read book Scotus and Covid written by Rachael Houston and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. Supreme Court livestreamed their oral arguments for the first time, an unprecedented shift that allowed access to proceedings in real time to the news media and public, alike.
Download or read book Mass Media and the Supreme Court written by Kenneth S. Devol and published by Hastings House Book Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from opinions of the Supreme Court, with concurrences and dissents, and articles from various journals of law and mass communication. Includes index.
Download or read book Media Portrayal and Public Opinion on the Supreme Court written by Patrick Hall and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
