"The question at the end of the day……" — Floyd Abrams
"The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?"
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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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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to…
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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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