Goldwater v. Ginzburg

Goldwater v. Ginzburg was a 1969 court ruling on defamation.^[1]

History

Fact magazine was edited by Ralph Ginzburg and Warren Boroson. The magazine was sued by Barry Goldwater over a 1964 article entitled "The Unconscious of a Conservative: A special Issue on the Mind of Barry Goldwater."^[1] The magazine polled psychiatrists and asked if Goldwater was psychologically fit to serve as president.^[2] A federal jury awarded Goldwater $1 in compensatory damages and $75,000 in punitive damages, to punish Ginzburg and the magazine for being reckless. The American Psychiatric Association then issued the Goldwater rule reaffirming medical privacy and forbidding commenting on a patient that any individual psychiatrist has not personally examined.^[1]

References

1 2 3 Richard A. Friedman (May 23, 2011). "How a Telescopic Lens Muddles Psychiatric Insights". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
↑ "LBJ Fit to Serve". Associated Press. May 23, 1968. Retrieved 2011-05-24. Publisher Ralph Ginzburg, defendant in a libel suit for an article on a poll of psychiatrists on Barry Goldwater that he conducted in 1964 says ...

Barry Goldwater

Political and legislative career	Electoral history of Barry Goldwater Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act 1964 presidential campaign Goldwater v. Carter Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 Goldwater–Nichols Act

Elections	United States Senate election in Arizona, 1952 1958 1964 Republican National Convention United States presidential election, 1964 United States Senate election in Arizona, 1968 1974 1980

Family and personal life	Barry Goldwater, Jr. Don Goldwater Goldwater's

Other	The Conscience of a Conservative The Goldwaters Goldwater v. Ginzburg Goldwater rule Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Goldwater Institute

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/20/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.