Occupation: Attorney Birth: July 9, 1936
I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause ….
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that..
I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different..
It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball..
I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free speech and freedom of the press and the es….
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….
The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful o….
I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all….
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it….
If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the polic….
I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough….
I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the 'The New York Times' and 'The Washington Post' and oth….
That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at this moment we simply do not have enough evidenc….
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as ….
The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have..
I can tell you, having been in court today in New York, that the requests for the video outtakes have been dropped..
I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York..