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Monster Essays - New York Times Co. V. United S
The New York
Times printed allegedly classified documents that leaked from the Pentagon
about the war in Vietnam. A 47 volume classified history of the American involvement
in Vietnam was distributed to the Times and, later, the Post by Daniel Ellsberg,
a minor writer in the Pentagon Papers. The Times published these papers bit
by bit until the Nixon administration sought an injunction on the Times to
stop publication. The Supreme Court found that the First Amendment did not
permit an injunction against the Times.
The issue here is weather or not
the First Amendment applies to federal papers, and weather prior rest....
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