Floyd Abrams
Floyd Abrams
Floyd Abramsis an American attorney at Cahill Gordon & Reindel. He is an expert on constitutional law, and many arguments in the briefs he has written before the United States Supreme Court have been adopted as United States Constitutional interpretative law as it relates to the First Amendment and free speech. He is the William J. Brennan Jr. Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
CountryUnited States of America
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Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently broad, clear and uncoerced.
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It was made very clear to me in discussions with Mr. Libby's counsel that he had personally approved and authorized Matthew Cooper fully to disclose everything about their conversations. I was satisfied that I had been given a direct and unequivocal assurance that Matt could testify and Libby had approved that.
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Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
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Where the disclosure is of newsworthy information and it is made by an entity that did not act illegally in obtaining the information, the disclosure is generally protected under the First Amendment.
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While Judy Miller sat in jail for 85 days and Mr. Libby knew that she was doing it to protect him, no call came in from him, no letter arrived from him,
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Reporters should keep their word to their sources.
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Judy was very reluctant to seem to be putting pressure on a source to release her to speak. And at the time, it would not have solved the other issue.
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will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in.
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The message you sent to me was viewed by Ms. Miller as inherently 'mixed,'
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The notes were redacted to omit everything but the notes taken concerning discussions with Libby about Plame.
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to assure that the only source he would effectively be asking about was Mr. Libby.
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Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely have agreed to stop it long ago.
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Everything is being dropped. There is no more litigation about this.
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At its core, ... a time had come when it was possible to resolve this. Judy had no desire to continue to endure life in the detention center.