I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York... view

By: Floyd Abrams

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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... view

By: Floyd Abrams

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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... view

By: Floyd Abrams

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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent... view

By: Floyd Abrams

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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game... view

By: Floyd Abrams

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I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent... view

By: Floyd Abrams

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There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important... view

By: Floyd Abrams

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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... view

By: Floyd Abrams

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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... view

By: Floyd Abrams

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My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case... view

By: Floyd Abrams

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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... view

By: Floyd Abrams

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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... view

By: Floyd Abrams

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