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• Equitable relief against defamation. (Cambridge, Mass., 1915), by Roscoe Pound and James Barr Ames (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lawsuits against the Government relating to a bill to amend the Privacy act of 1974, Department of Justice : report of the Comptroller General of the United States. (U.S. General Accounting Office], 1977), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• Preliminary memorandum as to proposed libel suits against the Boston Transcript (New York, 1922), by Walter Nelles, Boston Evening Transcript (Firm), and American Civil Liberties Union (page images at HathiTrust)

• The libel suit of Knowles v. Douglass, 1748 and 1749 (J. Wilson, 1897), by John Noble (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Equitable relief against defamation (Issued privately, 1915), by Roscoe Pound and James Barr Ames (page images at HathiTrust)

• Newspaper libel, a handbook for the press (Ticknor and company, 1888), by Samuel Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of newspapers; a text and case book for use in schools of journalism and a deskbook for newspaper workers (McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc., 1940), by William Reed Arthur, Ralph L. Crosman, and United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• The newspaperman and the law. (W.C. Brown, 1950), by Walter Allan Steigleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of literature, reviewing the laws of literary property in manuscripts : books, lectures, dramatic and musical compositions : works of art, newspapers, periodicals, &c. : copyright transfers, and copyright and piracy : libel and contempt os court by literary matter, etc : with an appendix of the American, English, French, and German statutes of copy right (J. Cockcroft & Co., 1875), by Appleton Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contempts by publication; the law of trial by newspaper (Priv. print. [Yale University Press], 1940), by Harold Wadsworth Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of journalism; including matters relating to the freedom of the press, libel, contempt of court, property rights in news, and regulation of advertising (Washington Law Book Co.;, 1940), by Robert William Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libel tourism : hearing before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, February 12, 2009. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2009), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of advertising and sales and related general business law, with which is combined advertising and sales that develop good-will [by] Clowry Chapman. (C. Chapman, 1908), by Clowry Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Law for the public speaker; legal aspects of public address. (Christopher Pub. House, 1958), by George P. Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Muck-rakers of other days." Speech of Hon. Julius Kahn of California in the House of Representatives, Saturday, March 26, 1910. (Govt. Print. Off., 1910), by Julius Kahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of slander and libel : and incidentally of malicious prosecutions (J.L. Wendell, 1858), by Thomas Starkie and John L. Wendell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of slander, libel, scandalum magnatum, and false rumours : including the rules which regulate intellectual communications, affecting the characters of individuals and the interests of the public : with a description of the practice and pleadings of personal actions, informations, indictments, attachments for contempts, &c., connected with the subject (G. Lamson, 1826), by Thomas Starkie and Edward D. Ingraham (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the wrongs called slander and libel : and on the remedy by civil action for those wrongs (Baker, Voorhis & Co., 1872), by John Townshend (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the wrongs called slander and libel : and on the remedy by civil action for those wrongs (Baker, Voorhis & Co., 1868), by John Townshend (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of slander and libel : and incidentally of malicious prosecutions (O. S. Cooke, 1852), by Thomas Starkie and John L. Wendell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libel law and the First Amendment : hearings before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, on ... June 27 and July 18, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1986), by Civil Liberties United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libel : hearing before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session ... February 26, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of slander and libel in civil and criminal cases (Callaghan, 1914), by Martin L. Newell and Mason H. Newell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of slander and libel : and incidentally of malicious prosecutions (from the steam press of C. Van Benthuysen and Co., 1843), by Thomas Starkie and John L. Wendell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Are foreign libel lawsuits chilling America's First Amendment rights? : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, February 23, 2010. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2010), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legal responsibilities and rights of public accountants (American institute publishing co., inc., 1935), by Wiley Daniel Rich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on the law of libel and the liberty of the press; showing the origin, use, and abuse of the law of libel: with copious notes and references to authorities in Great Britain and the United States: as applicable to individuals and to political and ecclesiastical bodies and principles. (G. F. Hopkins, 1830), by Thomas Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Films and broadcasts demeaning ethnic, racial, or religious groups. Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, second session, on H. Con. Res. 262 and H. Con. Res. 304 ... September 21, 1970. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1970), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications and Power (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• It's libel or contempt if you print it : a practical book on libel, contempt, and kindred topics for lawyers, and for students and workers in the newspaper field ([Parker], 1950), by Léon R. Yankwich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defamation actions (Practising Law Institute, 1946), by J. Howard Carter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Defamation actions. (Practising Law Institute, 1953), by J. Howard Carter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The law of defamation, libel and slander in civil and criminal cases as administered in the courts of the United States of America. (Callaghan and company, 1890), by Martin L. Newell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folkard's Starkie on slander and libel : including pleading and evidence, civil and criminal : also, malicious prosecutions, contempts of court (Banks & Brothers, 1877), by Henry Coleman Folkard, H. G. Wood, and Thomas Starkie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The newspaper press and the law of libel (New York, 1876), by David Dudley Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of libel and slander (F.A. Hildreth, 1860), by Franklin Fiske Heard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The $50,000 verdict : an account of the action of Robert J. Collier vs. the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., for libel, in which the plaintiff recovered $50,000 damages : also certain truths about the nature of Grape-nuts, Postum and C.W. Post ... (P.F. Collier & Son, 1911), by Robert Joseph Collier, Ltd. Postum Cereal Company, and Collier (Firm : Publishers : N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of libel and slander in civil and criminal cases as administered in the courts of the United States of America. (Callaghan and Company, 1898), by Martin L. Newell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statutes and constitutional provisions of the states and territories of the United States and the statutes of England, on libel and slander, with suggestions of amendments (Press of Eagle Book Print. Dept., 1895), by Azel F. Hatch and American Newspaper Publishers Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Films and broadcasts demeaning ethnic, racial, or religious groups--1971. Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, first session, on H. Con. Res. 9 and H. Con. Res. 182 ... April 27 and 28, 1971. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1971), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications and Power (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proposed Federal group libel legislation; staff report . . . (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1963), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libel handbook. (Massachusetts Newspaper Information Committee, 1950), by Bailey Aldrich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Contempt of court by publication. (Maryland Press Association, 1951), by Alfred Crowell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on the law of slander and libel : and incidentally of malicious prosecutions. From the 2d English ed. of 1830, with notes and references to American cases and to English decisions since 1830 (O. S. Cooke, 1852), by Thomas Starkie and John Lansing Wendell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presumptions and burden of proof as to malice in criminal libel. (Free Speech League, 1915), by Theodore Schroeder (page images at HathiTrust)
• American law and procedure. (La Salle Extension University, 1953), by William S. Rea and La Salle Extension University (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An account of the trial of Thomas Cooper, of Northumberland; on a charge of libel against the president of the United States; taken in short hand. ; With a preface, notes, and appendix, by Thomas Cooper. (Philadelphia: ;: Printed by John Bioren, no. 83, Chesnut Street, for the author., April 1800), by Thomas Cooper and United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An essay on the liberty of the press; respectfully inscribed to the republican printers throughout the United States. / By Hortensius. (Philadelphia: : Printed at the Aurora office,, 1799), by George Hay and John Adams (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Synopsis of the law of libel and the right of privacy. (Scripps-Howard, 1963), by John F Novatney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American law and procedure. (La Salle Extension University, 1953), by William S. Rea and La Salle Extension University (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A narrative of a new and unusual American imprisonment of two Presbyterian ministers: and prosecution of Mr. Francis Makemie one of them, for preaching one sermon at the city of New-York. By a learner of law, and lover of liberty. ([New York?] : Printed [by William Bradford?] for the publisher., 1707), by Francis Makemie (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Hate and the Internet (New York: American Jewish Committee, ca. 1999), by Kenneth S. Stern (PDF at ajcarchives.org)
• Everyday Fears: A Survey of Violent Hate Crimes in Europe and North America (New York: Human Rights First, 2005), by Michael McClintock (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Regulating campus hate speech : is it constitutional? (National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 1992), by Charles H. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• University responses to racial and sexual harassment on campuses : hearing before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session ... September 10, 1992 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

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