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To: Drew68

Please summarize the result of the case.


37 posted on 02/15/2018 8:23:47 AM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: Architect of Avalon
Please summarize the result of the case.

The Supreme Court, 30 years ago this month in a landmark 8-0 decision, ruled that public figures can be satirized and parodied. Despite Larry Flynt's crude Hustler advertisement, the court found that no reasonable person would believe that famed televangelist Jerry Falwell engaged in drunken sex with his mother in an outhouse. This ruling would also find that no reasonable person would believe that Taylor Swift is a Hitler-quoting Nazi.

38 posted on 02/15/2018 12:50:52 PM PST by Drew68
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