Claim
Claim 825
The Supreme Court held that a public official may not recover libel damages over criticism of official conduct unless the official proves the statement was made with actual malice, that is, with knowledge it was false or with reckless disregard for the truth.
- Statement
- The Supreme Court held that a public official may not recover libel damages over criticism of official conduct unless the official proves the statement was made with actual malice, that is, with knowledge it was false or with reckless disregard for the truth.
- Field
- effect_on_reporting
- Value
- Actual malice standard
- Publisher
- Cornell Law School, Legal Information Institute
- Method
- court record
- Checked
- 2026-09-26
- Confidence
- high
- Status
- current
- Source date
- 1964-03-09
Quotation from the source
unless he proves that the statement was made with 'actual malice'—that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.