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 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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to assure that the only source he would effectively be asking about was Mr. Libby.
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She has other sources and was very concerned about the possibility of having to reveal those sources or going back to jail because of them.
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There is a great reluctance on the part of journalists..to pick up the phone and sort of badger sources into relieving them of the promises they made, especially at the time that the promises are most important, when the source is in trouble. This is a very difficult and very delicate area.
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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'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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will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in.
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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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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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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.