Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Association, Inc. v. Bresler.

About Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Association, Inc. v. Bresler

Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Association, Inc. v. Bresler, 398 U.S. 6 (1970), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that using the word "blackmail" in a newspaper article "was no more than rhetorical hyperbole" and that finding such usage as libel "would subvert the most fundamental meaning of a free press" guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The respondent's status as a public figure was not in dispute.