United States:
A Forgotten First Amendment Hero
22 January 2018
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
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Litigation partner Jeffrey S. Trachtman’s article “A
Forgotten First Amendment Hero” ran in New York Law
Journal’s Outside Counsel column on Jan. 17, 2018. Jeff
shines a light on the late Judge Murray I. Gurfein and his role in
the Pentagon Papers case – and how it was a missed
opportunity by the film “The Post” to give Judge
Gurfein, as a rookie judge on the Southern District bench, credit
for a bold ruling in support of the First Amendment, which
ultimately paved the way to the Supreme Court ruling that allowed
for the publication of the Papers by the New York Times
and Washington Post.
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