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In Reply to: Not hate, merely avoidance. posted by rick_m on March 20, 2007 at 09:38:27:
It was a landmark First Amendment decision by the Supreme Court, and Bose lost. Here's a description of the case from an article in National Law Journal:
Bose complained that a 1970 article comparing stereo speakers said Bose's speakers reproduced the music so that "individual instruments seemed to grow to gigantic proportions and tended to wander about the room." At trial, the tester who first wrote those words said he really meant that the sound tended to wander along the wall between the speakers. The trial judge found actual malice-a reckless disregard for the story's truth. Reversing, the Supreme Court said appeals courts must give more scrutiny to libel verdicts than any others, to ensure that speech deserving of constitutional protection was getting it.C.U.'s Bose story was opinion speech, six of the nine justices held, even if that opinion was flawed. Citing the court's own precedent in New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that error "is inevitable in free debate, and . . . must be protected if the freedoms of expression are to have the 'breathing space' that they need to survive." With that, the high court ended the 14-year-old Bose case.
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Follow Ups
- Consumer Reports won the suit, not Bose - Rob Doorack 12:06:21 03/20/07 (1)
- Cool... - rick_m 12:35:33 03/20/07 (0)
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