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Friend of the Court
Since 1971, when the Pentagon Papers were leaked to theNew York Timesand furious debate over First Amendment rights ensued, free-speech cases have emerged in rapid succession. Floyd Abrams has been on the front lines of nearly every one of these major cases, which is also to say that, more than any other person, he has forged this country's legal understanding of free speech. Litigating everything from national-security and prior-restraint issues to controversies concerning the law of libel and attempts by local officials to censor art, Abrams has worked devotedly to protect the First Amendment, the \"crown jewel\" of America's Constitution.
This collection of Abrams's writings gathers speeches, articles, debates, briefs, oral arguments, and testimony from his entire career. The writings illuminate topics of ongoing import: WikiLeaks, the correctness of the Citizens United case, journalist shield laws, and, not least, the responsibilities of the press. An exceptional writer and a brilliant thinker, Abrams offers a unique perspective on the First Amendment and the unparalleled rights it confers.
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The soul of the First Amendment
\"A lively and controversial overview by the nation's most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in America... The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored and least understood addendum to the US Constitution: the First Amendment. Floyd Abrams, a noted lawyer and award-winning legal scholar specializing in First Amendment issues, examines the degree to which American law protects free speech more often, more intensely, and more controversially than is the case anywhere else in the world, including democratic nations such as Canada and England. In this lively, powerful, and provocative work, the author addresses legal issues from the adoption of the Bill of Rights through recent cases such as Citizens United. He also examines the repeated conflicts between claims of free speech and those of national security occasioned by the publication of classified material such as was contained in the Pentagon Papers and was made public by WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden\"--Publisher's website.
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Settler's remorse
Who can quarrel with the notion that settling civil cases is generally a good thing? Litigation is expensive, time-consuming, preoccupying, and often personally destructive. Our courts are overburdened and, in any event, imperfect decision-making entities. It may even be true that, more often than not, \"the absolute result of a trial is not as high a quality of justice as is the freely negotiated, give a little, take a little settlement.\"
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Foreword: settler's remorse
Who can quarrel with the notion that settling civil cases is generally a good thing? Litigation is expensive, time-consuming, preoccupying, and often personally destructive. The courts are overburdened and, in any event, imperfect decision-making entities. It may even be true that, more often than not, \"the absolute result of a trial is not as high a quality of justice as is the freely negotiated, give a little, take a little settlement. \"But not every case should be settled. Many are worthless. The settlement of others could too easily lead to a torrent of unwarranted litigation. Sometimes, as Professor Owen Fiss has observed, parties \"settle while leaving justice undone.\" While few of the settlements the author has been involved with can be so described, one has plagued him since he participated in negotiating it twenty-five years ago. The case involved a claim of libel. In January 1977, Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company published WANTED! The Search for Nazis in America. Written by Howard Blum, a former New York Times reporter, the book focused on a number of government agents who had sought to collect evidence about four people who had entered the United States after World War II, and whom they suspected of having committed war crimes
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