Higher Education Administrators, Defamation, and Actual Malice--Revisited.

Cloud, Robert C.

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ERIC Number: EJ537464

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Publication Date: 1996

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Higher Education Administrators, Defamation, and Actual Malice--Revisited.

Cloud, Robert C.

West's Education Law Quarterly, v5 n4 p623-48 Oct 1996

Executive administrators are vulnerable to the malice and defamatory attacks of critics on and off their campuses. Documents the impact of the actual malice standard on public higher education administrators since the United States Supreme Court's 1964 decision in "New York Times Co. v. Sullivan." Reviews "New York Times" and 23 related federal cases. (87 footnotes) (MLF)

Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, Court Litigation, Federal Courts, Higher Education, Legal Responsibility, Libel and Slander, Public Colleges, Public Officials, State Courts, Torts

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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