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Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Ass'n, Inc. v. Bresler
''Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Association, Inc. v. Bresler'', 398 U.S. 6 (1970), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that using the word "blackmail" in a newspaper article "was no more than rhetorical hyperbole" and that finding such usage as libel "would subvert the most fundamental meaning of a free press" guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The ruling also touched on the plaintiff's status as a public figure.
== Background ==
Dorothy Sucher, a reporter for the ''Greenbelt News Review'' of Greenbelt, Maryland, covered a 1965 city council hearing in a case where developer Charles S. Bresler was trying to obtain variances to build a high-density housing development on land he owned while the city was seeking to purchase a parcel owned by Bresler that would be the site of a new high school. Bresler indicated that he would be willing to sell the property the city wanted as long as he received the variances he was seeking. Residents at the hearing were critical of the deal and of the way that Bresler was using the leverage he had in delaying the sale of the proposed high school property to obtain the right to build more densely on the properties he owned.〔Hevesi, Dennis. ("Dorothy Sucher, Reporter in Press-Freedom Case, Dies at 77" ), ''The New York Times'', August 31, 2010. Accessed September 2, 2010.〕 An article written by Sucher in the October 14, 1965 issue of the ''Greenbelt News Review'' reporting on the council meeting quoted a resident saying that "It seems that this is a slight case of blackmail" continuing to state that "the word was echoed by many speakers from the audience" a charge that was rejected in the article by a city councilmember who said that this was not blackmail, but was part of a negotiations process that was "a two-way street". Bresler filed a lawsuit in Prince George's County circuit court claiming that the allegations and use of the word "blackmail" constituted libel, and a jury found in his favor, awarding him $5,000 in compensatory damages and $12,500 in punitive damages.〔Buerger, Megan. ("Dorothy Sucher dies at 77; wrote story that was test case for freedom of press" ), ''The Washington Post'', August 28, 2010. Accessed September 2, 2010.〕 The judgment was affirmed by the Maryland Court of Appeals and certiorari was granted by the U.S. Supreme Court.〔(''GREENBELT COOPERATIVE PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, Inc., et al., Petitioners, v. Charles S. BRESLER'' ), OpenJurist.com, May 18, 1970. Accessed September 2, 2010.〕
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