"It is within the last quarter century or……" — Floyd Abrams
"It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know."
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32 Quotes by Floyd Abrams
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
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That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at this…
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree.…
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I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that…
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I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers…
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have…
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I…
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I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The…
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If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably,…
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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view…
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CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.
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