New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and Strauder v. West Virginia, cases with which organization?
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that established the actual malice standard, which has to be met before press reports about public officials can be considered to be defamation and libel; and hence allowed free reporting of the civil rights campaigns in the southern United States. It is one of the key decisions supporting the freedom of the press. The actual malice standard requires that the plaintiff in a defamation or libel case, if he is a public figure, prove that the publisher of the statement in question knew that the statement was false or acted in reckless disregard of its truth or falsity. Because of the extremely high burden of proof on the plaintiff, and the difficulty of proving the defendant's knowledge and intentions, such claims by public figures rarely prevail.
Justice on Trial, Inc. Justice on Trial, Inc. was established in April 2002. It is a non-profit advocacy organization for the wrongfully accused. The organization's motto is former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Louis D. Brandeis' quote,""Sunshine is the best disinfectant,"" since the organization concentrates on providing the media with information on cases it handles in the hopes of exposing prosecutorial malfeasance and other corruption in the U.S. justice system. Since the advocacy's inception, it has assisted many defendants and, in 2004, was instrumental in the dismissal of the charges against Michael F. Goodwin who had been charged by the Orange County District Attorney, Tony Rackauckas, with orchestrating the 1988 murders of Mickey and Trudy Thompson in Bradbury, Los Angeles County, California.