Floyd Abrams - Boddunan

Floyd Abrams

Country	Unknown
Born	Monday, 30 November -0001
Category	Social Activists
Quotes	31

Lawyer

Title	Category
I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm.	Uncategorized
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.	Uncategorized
I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.	Uncategorized
Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.	Uncategorized
CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.	Uncategorized
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.	Uncategorized
It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.	Uncategorized
I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.	Uncategorized
CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.	Uncategorized
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.	Uncategorized
I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.	Uncategorized

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