Research Catalog

Title

Insult to injury : libel, slander, and invasions of privacy / William K. Jones.

Author

Jones, William K.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Univ. Press of Colorado, c2003.

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Details

Description

viii, 388 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In Insult to Injury, William K. Jones reviews the seminal U.S. Supreme Court decisions that restrict the First Amendment in order to protect persons against defamatory falsehoods, invasions of privacy, and related psychic harm. Covering cases ranging from a restaurant owner driven out of business over a veal chop to a University of Georgia football coach accused of sharing plays with an opponent before a game, Jones examines the many subtleties of the law, its interpretation, and its restrictions."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Privacy, Right of > United States
• Libel and slander > United States
• Trials, litigation, etc
• Privacy, Right of > United States > Cases
• Libel and slander > United States > Cases

Genre/Form

Trials, litigation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The man who had to leave town -- "Heed their rising voices" -- An uncommon common law -- The First Amendment -- Anything that touches on fitness for office -- The tale of the furtive night watchman -- Into the vortex of public controversy -- The big football fix -- The frame-up of officer nuccio -- The golden fleece of the month award -- The reluctant Soviet agent -- Special cases : unlimited, irrelevant and involuntary public figures -- Strictly business -- Purely private libels -- Group libels -- Looking for love? sorry, wrong number -- Blackmail, treason, hypocrisy and lies -- La Cosa Nostra at your service -- The greatest analyst who ever lived -- Five scientists who were paid to lie -- The airman who almost fell to earth -- Actual malice at issue -- The losing game -- Bring in da plea bring in da writ -- Possible pitfalls -- Paths not taken -- The right to privacy -- Genius, hero, maverick, threat -- The man who would be woman -- Paparazzi -- Intrusions on private domains -- Broken promises -- Deception and subterfuge -- After the Pentagon papers -- The adventures of artemus jones -- Justice a la Corrigan -- The impact of the Internet -- Concluding observations.

ISBN

0870817426 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003008786

OCLC

• 52086213
• SCSB-10026750

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library