Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Winters v. Miller
434 U.S. 968
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1977-11-28
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- term “incompetent” as applied to a judge held too vague to support a claim of libel
- claims invoking Title VII and the Civil Rights Acts relate back to each other
- accusations of criminal activity, even in form of opinion, are not constitutionally protected
- defamatory to call judge “probably corrupt”
- charging a judge with corruption
Citator
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.