- Greenbelt News Review
Infobox Newspaper
name = Greenbelt News Review
type = Weeklynewspaper
format =Tabloid
foundation = 1937
headquarters = 15 Crescent Road, Suite 100
Greenbelt, 20770
USA
editor =Mary Lou Williamson
publisher = Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Association
owners = Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Association
website = [http://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/ greenbeltnewsreview.com]The "Greenbelt News Review" was established in 1937 as a volunteer
cooperative shortly after settlement ofGreenbelt, Maryland , and was originally called "The Cooperator". It has been published without interruption every week since its founding, and is distributed free by a network of carriers to all city residents. [cite book
last = Knepper
first = Cathy D.
authorlink = http://www.cathydknepper.com/
title = Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New Deal
publisher =JHU Press
date = 2001
location =Baltimore, Maryland
pages = pages 127-139
url = http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/1680.html
isbn = 0801864909]1970 Supreme Court Libel Case
In 1965, the "News Review" published two quotations of citizen remarks at City Council meetings in which they characterized as "blackmail" the actions of Charles S. Bresler, a local real estate developer and member of the
Maryland House of Delegates . Bresler filed suit in 1966, claiming that he had become "the most hated man in Greenbelt." [Citation
last = Osnos
first = Peter
title = Bresler Wins $17,500 Libel Appeal
newspaper =The Washington Post
pages = Page A-11
date =1969-05-04
url = http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/146132182.html?dids=146132182:146132182&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=MAY+04%2C+1969&author=By+Peter+OsnosBy+a+Washington+Post+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Bresler+Wins+%2417%2C500+Libel+Appeal ] Local volunteers formed a Freedom of the Press committee and went door to door to raise money for the paper's legal defense. [cite web
last = Peterson
first = Heather Elizabeth
title = The Cooperator: An Unofficial History of the "Greenbelt News Review"
url = http://www.greenbelt.com/gnr/page1.htm
accessdate = 2008-08-19 ]Bresler received a $17,500
libel judgment from the Prince George's County Circuit Court, which was upheld by theMaryland Court of Appeals in 1969. [Citation
title = U.S. Supreme Court Reverses News Review Libel Judgment
newspaper = Greenbelt News Review
pages = pages 1-2
date =1970-05-21
url = http://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/issues/GNR19700521(SupremeCourt).pdf]In 1970, the
Supreme Court of the United States ruled unanimously in favor of the "News Review" and overturned the lower courts' judgments. The Supreme Court held "that as a matter of constitutional law, the word 'blackmail' in these circumstances was not slander when spoken, and not libel when reported in the "Greenbelt News Review." [cite court
litigants = Greenbelt Co-Op. Publ. Assn., Inc. v. Bresler
vol = 398
reporter = U.S.
opinion = 6
date = 1970
url= http://supreme.justia.com/us/398/6/case.html ] [Citation
title = Supreme Court Curbs Libel Suits Over Reporting of Exaggerated Charges
newspaper =The New York Times
pages = page 25
date =1970-05-19
url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00713FB3F5D137B93CBA8178ED85F448785F9 ]References
External links
* [http://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/ "News Review" website]
* [http://www.greenbelt.com/gnr/page1.htm An Unofficial History of the "Greenbelt News Review"]
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