New York Times v. United States
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- Daniel Ellsberg
- Pentagon
- The Press
- U.S. Government
- The U.S. Supreme Court
- Pentagon
- TRIAL COURT
- Guilty.
- Once apon a time, in 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a former Defense Department Official secured lengthy classified documents related to the Vietnam War. Ellsberg handed the documents over to the Press in order for them to publish it.
- Court of Appeals
- The U.S. gets ahold of a temporary order from the Supreme Court which prevented the documents to be published before the court could hear and decide the case.
- The U.S. Supreme Court
- The U.S. government takes the New York TImes to Trial Court in order to prevent the publication of secretcy documents on the grounds that it endangered National Security. The Trial Court ruled in favor of the United States Government.
- Pentagon
- Soon after, the New York Times is taken to the Court of Appeals where their argument is once again dissented. The United States Government is ruled in favor of.
- The case was then taken to the Supreme Court, where it was ruled in favor of New York Times. Justices stated that the publishment of the documents was protected by the First amendment as long as it didn't affect National Security.
- Once the Supreme Court decided that the publishment of the Pentagon papers were protected by the first amendment, New York Times was able to bare the secrets of the government and inform the public. Thereafter, they all lived happily ever after.
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