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==Background==
==Background==
During the [[Civil Rights Movement]] in the 1960's, the "Committee to Defend Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Freedom in the South" published a paid advertisement in the New York Times, describing how Chief of Police Sullivan had suppressed a civil rights demonstration in [[Montgomery]]. Sullivan sued for [[libel]]. While US law has held that true statements cannot be libelous, Sullivan argued that the advertisement contained a small error - saying that the protesters sang "[[My Country 'Tis of Thee]]" when in fact they sang "[[The Star-Spangled Banner]]" - and therefore could be libelous.
During the [[Civil Rights Movement]] in the 1960s, the "Committee to Defend Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Freedom in the South" published a paid advertisement in the New York Times, describing how Chief of Police Sullivan had suppressed a civil rights demonstration in [[Montgomery]]. Sullivan sued for [[libel]]. While US law has held that true statements cannot be libelous, Sullivan argued that the advertisement contained a small error - saying that the protesters sang "[[My Country 'Tis of Thee]]" when in fact they sang "[[The Star-Spangled Banner]]" - and therefore could be libelous.
==Ruling==
==Ruling==