1. New York Times v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971)
2. The case was deemed very serious and went right to the supreme court.
3. Context
a. Parties in the case
● Richard Nixon
● The New York Times
● The government
● The judges??
b. Objectives of each party
b1. The objective of Nixon and the government was to cease the publication of
the Times.
b2. The objective of the New York Times was to appeal the government’s order to
cease the publication of the paper.
c. The United States sought to enjoin the New York Times and Washington Post from
publishing contents of a confidential study about the Government’s decision making with regards
to Vietnam policy. The District Court in the New York Times case and the District Court and the
Court of Appeals in the Washington Post case held that the Government had not met the requisite
