Make No Law

A crucial and compelling account of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan , the landmark Supreme Court case that redefined libel, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis. The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued  The New York Times  for libel—and was awarded $500,000 by a local jury—because the paper had published an ad critical of Mon