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Journalism Law
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1. Undercover efforts by news organizations could be prosecuted not for defamation - but possibly for things like breach of duty or loyalty.
Summary judgment
Food Lion - Inc - v. Capital Cities/ABC
Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
Actual Damages
2. The First Amendment protection for students does not require a public school to print speech when they can justify their decision by stating an educational purpose.
Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises
Detroit Free Press - Inc. v. Oakland County Sheriff
Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
Detroit Free Press v. Recorder's Court Judge
3. No guarantee of immunity for media ride alongs.
Shulman v. Group W. Productions
Wilson v. Layne
Sixth amendmen
Nebraska Press Association. v. Stuart
4. Compensatory damages are a proper remedy to avoid the injustice under a promissory estoppel claim.
Intrusion on physical solitude
New York Times v. Sullivan
Cohen v. Cowles Media Co
Libel Per Se
5. Innocent and negligent misstatement in a newspaper are protected under constitutional freedoms of speech and press.
Time Inc. v. Hill
Nebraska Press Association. v. Stuart
In re Closure of Voir Dire (People v. Lawrence)
Kincaid v. Gibson
6. A court created device to weed out inadmissible evidence in advance of trial
Pretiral hearing
False light
Defenses of libel
Arraignment
7. Money damages awarded to the injured party as compensation for a specific loss
Booth & Ann Arbor News v. EMU Board of Regents
Herbert v. Lando
Any civil matter
Actual Damages
8. Anything punishable by more than a year in jail
Felonies
Actual malice
Wilson v. Layne
Precedent
9. An invasion of privacy tort which occurs when information about a person's private life is published - and there is not relevant newsworthy tie.
Actual malice
McCracken v. Evening News Association
Misdemeanor
Publication of private matters that violate ordinary decency
10. Any communication - true or false - which exposes a person to hatred - ridicule or contempt. the person's reputation is harmed or damaged
6th - cincinnati OH
Defamation
Libel
Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
11. Under FOIA - personell records may be released - subject to 'appropriate redactions.'
Freedom of Information Act
Defamation
Bradley v. Saranac Community Schools Board of Education
Michigan Federation of Teachers v. University of Michigan
12. Newspapers do not have an equal time requirement like broadcast has.
Miami Herald Co. v. Tornillo
Right to publicity
Midland Publishing Co v. District Judge
Intrusion on physical solitude
13. Upon the request of the counsel or the victim - you can order that the names of the victim and actor and details of the alleged offense be suppressed until such time as the actor is arraigned - the charge is dismissed - or the case is otherwise concl
Galella v. Onassis
MCLA 750.520k
Felonies
Time Inc. v. Pape
14. Journalists and citizens must first obey court orders first before seeking appeal - even if they believe the order is unconstitutional
U.S. v. Dickinson
Rosenbloom v. Metromedia
Felonies
Gertz v. Welch
15. Prevents ISPs from liability except on copyright.
Zurcher v. Stanford Daily
Edwards v. National Audubon Society
Clark v. ABC
Dendrite v. John Does
16. hearing where the judge decides whether or not there is sufficient evidence to prove a crime. In michigan - takes place in district court
Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co
6th - cincinnati OH
Preliminary hearing
Rosenbloom v. Metromedia
17. Guarantees freedoms of speech - religion - press and assembly.
Fourth amendment
Fourteenth amendment
First amendment
Libel Perquod
18. Civil cases when the amount in dispute is less than $25 -000
Michigan Federation of Teachers v. University of Michigan
Tickets
Detroit Free Press v. Recorder's Court Judge
5 Elements of libel
19. US Supreme court allows inquiry into a reporters state of mind when making decisions about what to include and what not to include.
Sipple v. Chronicle Publishing Company
In re Closure of Voir Dire (People v. Lawrence)
Herbert v. Lando
Arraignment
20. What is shot in public place is fine - but if there is intrusion on physical solitude it is not protected.
Harte-Hanks Communications - Inc. v. Connaughton
Houchins v. KQED Inc.
Shulman v. Group W. Productions
Any civil matter
21. A published article must be so inaccurate that it will have more of an effect on the reader than the literal truth would.
Right to publicity
McCracken v. Evening News Association
Snepp v. United States
District Court
22. The First Amendment protects college students' freedom of expression - and the Hazelwood case should not be applied to college media.
Hutchinson v. Proxmire
Gannett v. DePasquale
Kincaid v. Gibson
Precedent
23. Spoken defamation which causes injury to a person's reputation
Alander
Edwards v. National Audubon Society
Qualified privilege
Cohen v. Cowles Media Co
24. Plaintiffs are not entitled to an order unmasking an anonymous author when the statements in question cannot support a cause of action for defamation.
District Court
Right to publicity
A.Z. v. Jane Doe
Detroit Free Press v. Recorder's Court Judge
25. Set the standard in MI that negligence is needed to prove libel - as the legislature had not acted.
Sipple v. Chronicle Publishing Company
False light
Rouch 1
Booth Newspaper v. U of M Board of Regents
26. (privacy) There are areas around you that are a 'zone of privacy'
Civil contempt
Intrusion on physical solitude
Sixth amendmen
Doctrine of neutral reportage
27. In the case where a party challenges the underlying facts that support a trial court's decision - the appellate court must defer to the trial court's view of the facts.
Alander
Booth & Ann Arbor News v. EMU Board of Regents
McIntosh v. The Detroit News
Galella v. Onassis
28. Guarantees people the right to be secure in their homes and property against unreasonable searches and seizures. Also protects against the issuance of a warrant without probable cause.
U.S. v. Dickinson
McIntosh v. The Detroit News
Fourth amendment
Dendrite v. John Does
29. A reporter has a qualified privilege to report on controversial matters of public interest using reputable sources.
Miami Herald Co. v. Tornillo
Doctrine of neutral reportage
Amicus curiae
Bay City Times v. City of Bay City
30. Michigan statute M.C.L.A. 750.520k violated the First - Fifth - and Fourteenth Amendments
Appropriation of another's likeness for commercial profit
Gertz v. Welch
WXYZ v. Hand
Civil contempt
31. (Privacy) Ex. Kim Kardashian's sex tape
MCLA 750.520k
Qualified privilege
Publication of private matters that violate ordinary decency
Zurcher v. Stanford Daily
32. First Amendment protects media to report information from official records available in open court.
5 Elements of libel
Shulman v. Group W. Productions
Intrusion on physical solitude
Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn
33. If a quote is altered - in order for a publication to be sued the plaintiff must prove the meaning portrayed in altered quote is dramatically different than the actual quote
WXYZ v. Hand
Booth & Ann Arbor News v. EMU Board of Regents
Globe Newspapers v. Superior Court
Collins v. Detroit Free Press
34. Enforced freelancer/copyright actions - and publishers who were doing more than compile the stories had to pay the reporters. Electronic publications (putting it online) makes it a new publication.
Publication of private matters that violate ordinary decency
Booth Newspaper v. U of M Board of Regents
Tasini v. NYT
R.O. v. Ithaca City School District
35. A court order preventing a person or group from doing or continuing to do a specific act.
Felonies
First amendment
Injunction
Libel Perquod
36. (Privacy)a. Very close to libel - If you're a public official/figure you have the actual malice rule - Portraying someone in a lie - Truth is a defense - Consent is a defense - Public newsworthy event is okay
Pearson v. Dodd
Defenses of libel
False light
Evening News Association v. Troy
37. Michigan court trials have to remain open. Parts can be closed - but never all of the trial. M.C.L.A 750.520k only applies to pre-trial hearings.
McIntosh v. The Detroit News
In re Closure of Voir Dire (People v. Lawrence)
Detroit Free Press v. Macomb Circuit Judge
Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises
38. If you obtain material from a third party illegally - media are still protected and can publish.
Arraignment
Defenses of libel
False light
Pearson v. Dodd
39. For purposes of divorce - there may be some elements of a public person's private life that make them a private figure.
Time Inc. v. Firestone
R.O. v. Ithaca City School District
Public figure
Summary judgment
40. If a statement 'results in a material change in the meaning conveyed by the statement -' the person who says it can be sued for libel.
Masson v. New Yorker Magazine
Cantrell v. Forest City Publishing
Farmers Education Cooperative v. WDAY
Eimann/Braun v. Soldier of Fortune Magazine
41. The Sixth Amendment rights of a defendant outweigh the First Amendment of the press in cases where the press can have prejudicial outcome of the defendant's trial.
Shulman v. Group W. Productions
Gannett v. DePasquale
Precedent
Summary judgment
42. A judgment made by the court before or during a trial. This judgment is in repsonse to a motion by the plaintiff or defendant - who claims there is not enough evidence or there is no dispute that the information given is fact.
R.O. v. Ithaca City School District
Gag order
District Court
Summary judgment
43. Publication - identification - defamation - harm and damages
5 Elements of libel
Public figure
Federated Publications v. MSU Board of Trustees
Booth & Ann Arbor News v. EMU Board of Regents
44. Reading of the charges against a person
Detroit Free Press v. Macomb Circuit Judge
Arraignment
Wolston v. Readers' Digest Association
Evening News Association v. Troy
45. When you have a private figure plaintiff - even though state standards controls - if it's a matter of public concern - the burden of proof shifts from the defendant who no longer has to prove truth - to the plaintiff who has to prove falsity of what
Time Inc. v. Pape
Philadelphia Newspapers v. Hepps
Civil contempt
Bay City Times v. City of Bay City
46. The First Amendment protection for students does not require a public school to print speech when they can justify their decision by stating it is lewd - indecent or offensive - or have legitimate pedagogical concerns.
False light
R.O. v. Ithaca City School District
Booth Newspapers v. City of Kalamazoo
Gag order
47. The declaration of a final judgment based on the evidence presented
Gertz v. Welch
Shulman v. Group W. Productions
Kincaid v. Gibson
Adjudication
48. Criminal matters anything less than a year in jail
Misdemeanor
Snepp v. United States
Tickets
Actual Damages
49. MI Supreme Court ruled directory information of teachers cannot be disclosed. (home address and phone number)
Collins v. Detroit Free Press
Michigan Federation of Teachers v. University of Michigan
Sixth amendmen
Publication of private matters that violate ordinary decency
50. (privacy) a. Because of who you are - you have a right to profit from your image b. Endorsements
Right to publicity
Curtis Publishing v. Butts and AP v. Walker
Irreparable harm
MCLA 750.520k