UGA To Host Former Supreme Court Justice Stevens | WABE 90.1 FM

One of the former “Supremes” is coming to the University of Georgia.

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a one-day conference at UGA’s law school called “The Press and the Constitution: 50 Years after New York Times vs. Sullivan.”

The landmark ruling affirmed the freedom of journalists to investigate government officials and other public figures.

In 1964—just over a decade before Stevens was appointed to the bench—-the Supreme Court ruled the New York Times did not commit libel when it ran an ad paid for by civil rights activists criticizing Alabama law enforcement officials for their handling of civil rights protests.

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