<P> Constitutional law scholar Herbert Wechsler successfully argued the case before the United States Supreme Court . Louis M. Loeb, a partner at the firm of Lord Day & Lord who served as chief counsel to the Times from 1948 to 1967, was among the authors of the brief of the Times . </P> <P> Loeb later called the libel cases he argued for The New York Times "the heaviest responsibility I've ever had since I began practicing law ." </P> <P> The Supreme Court held that news publications could not be sued for libel by public officials unless the plaintiffs were able to establish actual malice in the false reporting of a news story . The Court ruled for The Times, 9--0 . The rule of law applied by the Alabama courts was found constitutionally deficient for its failure to provide safeguards for freedom of speech and of the press, as required by the First and Fourteenth Amendment . The decision further held that even with the proper safeguards, the evidence presented in the case was insufficient to support a judgment for Sullivan . In sum the court ruled that "the First Amendment protects the publication of all statements, even false ones, about the conduct of public officials except when statements are made with actual malice (with knowledge that they are false or in reckless disregard of their truth or falsity)." </P> <P> The decision allowed newspapers more freedom to report on the widespread chaos and police abuse during the Civil Rights Movement . </P>

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