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Floyd Abrams

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Floyd Abrams (born July 9, 1936) is an American attorney at Cahill Gordon & Reindel. [1]

52 relations: Amazon (company), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Bar Association, American Broadcasting Company, American Jewish Committee, Benjamin Wittes, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, Columbia Law School, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Constitution Project, Constitutional law, Cornell University, Dan Abrams, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, First Amendment Center, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Florida House of Representatives, Google Videos, Indira Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Judith Miller, Juris Doctor, Lawyer, List of cases argued by Floyd Abrams, Marquis Who's Who, Media Legal Defence Initiative, Miami, Miami Herald, Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, Milton S. Gould, New Delhi, New York City, New York State Bar Association, Pentagon Papers, Plame affair grand jury investigation, Public sphere, Publishers Weekly, Ronnie Abrams, Supreme Court of the United States, The National Law Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Thurgood Marshall, United States, United States District Court for the District of Delaware, Viking Press, William J. Brennan Award, William J. Brennan Jr., Yale Law School, ..., Yale University Press, Yankee. Expand index (2 more) »

Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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American Bar Association

The American Bar Association (ABA), founded August 21, 1878, is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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American Jewish Committee

American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a Jewish advocacy group established on November 11, 1906.

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Benjamin Wittes

Benjamin Wittes (born November 5, 1969) is an American journalist who focuses on issues of national security and law.

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Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act

The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA, McCain–Feingold Act) is a United States federal law that amended the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974, which regulates the financing of political campaigns.

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Cahill Gordon & Reindel

Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP (founded 1919) is a prominent New York-based international law firm with offices in New York, Washington, D.C. and London.

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Columbia Law School

Columbia Law School (often referred to as Columbia Law or CLS) is a professional graduate school of Columbia University, a member of the Ivy League.

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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is the journalism school of Columbia University.

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Constitution Project

The Constitution Project is a non-profit think tank in the United States whose goal is to build bipartisan consensus on significant constitutional and legal questions.

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Constitutional law

Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in federal countries such as the United States and Canada, the relationship between the central government and state, provincial, or territorial governments.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Dan Abrams

Dan Abrams (born c. 1965/1966) is an American web entrepreneur and television presenter who serves as the chief legal affairs anchor for ABC News and as the host of Live PD on the A&E cable network.

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician, sociologist, and diplomat.

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First Amendment Center

The First Amendment Center supports the First Amendment and builds understanding of its core freedoms through education, information and entertainment.

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First Amendment to the United States Constitution

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, or to petition for a governmental redress of grievances.

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Florida House of Representatives

The Florida House of Representatives is the lower house of the Legislature of the U.S. State of Florida.

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Google Videos

Google Videos is a video search engine from Google, similar to Google Images.

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Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (née Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician, stateswoman and a central figure of the Indian National Congress.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence.

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Judith Miller

Judith Miller (born January 2, 1948) is an American journalist and commentator.

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Juris Doctor

The Juris Doctor degree (J.D. or JD), also known as the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree (J.D., JD, D.Jur. or DJur), is a graduate-entry professional degree in law and one of several Doctor of Law degrees.

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Lawyer

A lawyer or attorney is a person who practices law, as an advocate, attorney, attorney at law, barrister, barrister-at-law, bar-at-law, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor at law, or solicitor, but not as a paralegal or charter executive secretary.

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List of cases argued by Floyd Abrams

This page contains a list and short descriptions of Floyd Abrams's most influential and famous cases.

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Marquis Who's Who

Marquis Who's Who is the American publisher of a number of directories containing short biographies.

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Media Legal Defence Initiative

The Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) (or Media Legal Defense Initiative) is a non-governmental organization established in 2008 to provide legal assistance to journalists (including bloggers) and independent media.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral, Florida, a city in western Miami-Dade County and the Miami metropolitan area, several miles west of downtown Miami.

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Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo

Miami Herald Publishing Co.

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Milton S. Gould

Milton S. Gould (October 8, 1909 – March 22, 1999) was a prominent New York City trial attorney.

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New Delhi

New Delhi is an urban district of Delhi which serves as the capital of India and seat of all three branches of Government of India.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York State Bar Association

The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) is a voluntary bar association for the state of New York.

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Pentagon Papers

The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.

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Plame affair grand jury investigation

The CIA leak grand jury investigation (related to the "CIA leak scandal", also known as the "Plame affair") was a federal inquiry "into the alleged unauthorized disclosure of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee's identity", a possible violation of criminal statutes, including the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, and Title 18, United States Code, Section 793.

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Public sphere

The public sphere (German Öffentlichkeit) is an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.

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Ronnie Abrams

Ronnie Abrams (born June 3, 1968) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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The National Law Journal

The National Law Journal, a U.S. periodical founded in 1978 by Jerry Finkelstein, as a "sibling newspaper" of the New York Law Journal, that itself was founded in 1888.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908January 24, 1993) was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States District Court for the District of Delaware

The United States District Court for the District of Delaware (in case citations, D. Del.) is the Federal district court having jurisdiction over the entire state of Delaware.

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Viking Press

Viking Press is an American publishing company now owned by Penguin Random House.

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William J. Brennan Award

William J. Brennan, Jr., who authored the opinion in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, has several awards named in his honor, which are presented to individuals for dedication to public interest and free expression.

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William J. Brennan Jr.

William Joseph Brennan Jr. (April 25, 1906 – July 24, 1997) was an American judge who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1956 to 1990.

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Yale Law School

Yale Law School (often referred to as Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.

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Yankee

The term "Yankee" and its contracted form "Yank" have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States; its various senses depend on the context.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Abrams

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