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Article: How scary is Milkovich? A matter of opinion. (the effects of Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. on published opinion)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1992
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"I said some unpleasant things about Nintendo," says Wall Street Journal columnist -- and Ninth Circuit Court judge -- Alex Kozinski of a recent column. "I wanted to tweak their nose. I was about to send it out and a word flashed through my mind: Milkovich. So I called all my law clerks together and said, 'Milkovich this for me!' And sure enough, they went through it and what had been a hard-hitting, somewhat bombastic column -- they're a big company, I felt they could take it -- now had the punch squeezed out of it."
Judge Kozinski, who has been repeatedly mentioned as a potential Supreme Court nominee, disagreed with the majority opinion when Masson v. New ...