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Bulletins were numbered consecutively from 1981 to 1988; since publication resumed in 1994, they have been numbered consecutively each year.
2004:
Bulletin 2004 No. 1 (Feb. 2004): MLRC 2004 Report on Trials and Damages Press Release
2003:
Bulletin 2003 No. 4 Part 2 (Jan. 2004): Section 43A of the Lanham Act: Uses, Abuses, and Limits
Bulletin 2003 No. 3 Part A (Sept. 2003): International Media Liability: Articles on International Laws and Issues
Bulletin 2003 No. 2 (July 2003): MLRC 2003 Report on Trials and Damages Press Release
Bulletin 2003 No. 1 (March 2003): Criminalizing Speech About Reputation: The Legacy of Criminal Libel in the U.S. After Sullivan and Garrison Press Release
2002:
Bulletin 2002 No. 4 Part II (Jan. 2003): Post 9/11 Access: Responding to the National Security Challenge
Bulletin 2002 No. 3 (Aug. 2002): 2001 Complaint Study; Supreme Court Report - 2001 Term Press Release
Bulletin 2002 No. 2 (March 2002): Criminal Prosecutions of the Press: The Espionage Act, Newsgathering Post-Bartnicki, Criminal Libel, Restricting Juror Interviews Press Release
Bulletin 2002 No. 1 (Feb. 2002): LDRC 2002 Report on Trials and Damages Press Release
2001:
Bulletin 2001 No. 4 (Dec. 2001): LDRC 2001 Report on Significant Developments Press Release
Bulletin 2001 No. 3 (Aug. 2001): 2001 Summary Judgment Study; Supreme Court Report - 2000 Term Press Release
Bulletin 2001 No. 2 (April 2001): Significant Developments Part II: A New Battleground in the Clash of Ownership and Free Expression: The Expanding Definition of Commercial Speech (Right of Publicity) Press Release
Bulletin 2001 No. 1 (Feb. 2001): LDRC 2001 Report on Trials and Damages Press Release
2000:
Bulletin 2000 No. 4 (Dec. 2000): LDRC 2000 Report on Significant Developments
Bulletin 2000 No. 3 (Aug. 2000): LDRC 2000 Report on Appellate Results; Supreme Court Report - 1999 Term
Bulletin 2000 No. 2 (June 2000): Fair Use in the Media: A Delicate Balance Press Release
Bulletin 2000 No. 1 Part II (April 2000): Media Trials at the Close of the Century: Challenge and Change
Bulletin 2000 No. 1 (Jan. 2000): LDRC 2000 Report on Trials and Damages Press Release
1999:
Bulletin 1999 No. 3 Part II (Dec. 1999): Significant Developments Part II: The Media at the Millenium: A Collection of Articles on Significant Issues and Developments of the 1990’s
Bulletin 1999 No. 3 Part 1 (Oct. 1999): LDRC 1999 Report on Significant Developments
Bulletin 1999 No. 2 (July 1999): The Texas Interlocutory Appeal Statute; Supreme Court Report, 1998 Term Press Release
Bulletin 1999 No. 1 (Jan. 1999): LDRC 1999 Report on Trials and Damages Press Release
1998:
Bulletin 1998 No. 4A (Dec. 1998): 1998 Significant Developments Part II: Legislation Aimed at “Paparazzi” Places All Journalists at Risk Press Release
Bulletin 1998 No. 4 (Oct. 1998): LDRC 1998 Report on Significant Developments
Bulletin 1998 No. 3 (1998): LDRC 1998 Report on Appellate Results / Supreme Court Report - 1997 Term Press Release
Bulletin 1998 No. 2 (April 1998): Agricultural Disparagment Laws: The Trend to Impose Statutory Liability on Speech Press Release
Bulletin 1998 No. 1 (Jan. 1998): LDRC 1998 Report on Trials and Damages Press Release
1997:
Bulletin 1997 No. 4 Part B: 1996 Term: A Report on Petitions for Certoriari to the Supreme Court of the United States
Bulletin 1997 No. 4 Part A (Oct. 1997): LDRC 1997 Report on Significant Developments
Bulletin 1997 No. 3 (July 1997): LDRC 1997 Report on Summary Judgment (includes articles and study) Press Release
Bulletin 1997 No. 2 (April 1997): Damage Considerations When the Press is Sued for Gathering the News
Bulletin 1997 No. 1 (Jan. 1997): 1996 LDRC Damages Study (includes Comparative Data: Results of Medical Malpractice and Products Liability Trials) Press Release
1996:
Bulletin 1996 No. 4 (Oct. 1996): Key Findings of the 1996-97 LDRC 50-State Surveys
Bulletin 1996 No. 3 (July 1996): LDRC Update on "Independent Appellate Review" in Defamation and Related Cases, 1984-1996
Bulletin 1996 No. 2 (April 1996): LDRC Motion to Dismiss Study: Motions to Dismiss in Libel, Privacy, and Related Actions, 1981-1995
Bulletin 1996 No. 1 (Jan. 1996): LDRC Damages Survey, 1994-95: Trial Results, Damage Awards and Post Trial Dispostions
1995:
Bulletin 1995 No. 4 (Oct. 1995): Key Findings of LDRC's 50-State Surveys
Bulletin 1995 No. 3 (July 1995): Summary Judgmment Update Part II: Summary Judgment Motions in Defamation Actions, 1986-1994
Bulletin 1995 No. 2 (April 1995): Summary Judgment Update: Part I: Practitioners' Roundtable
Bulletin 1995 No. 1 (Jan. 1995): The Right of Publicity and the New Restatement (Third) of Unfair Competition
1994:
Bulletin 1994 No. 4 (Oct. 1994): Synopsis of Current Media Libel and Privacy Developments
Bulletin 1994 No. 3 (July 1994): Supreme Court Report; Practitioners' Roundtable: Damages
Bulletin 1994 No. 2 (April 1994): Ten Years of "Independent Appellate Review" in Defamation Cases from Bose to Connaughton to the Present
Bulletin 1994 No. 1 (Jan. 1994): Trial Results, Damages Awards and Appeals, 1992-93
1988:
Bulletin No. 24 (Winter 1988): Punitive Damages in Libel Actions: An LDRC Status Report and Roundtable Discussion; LDRC 50-State Survey 1988: Key Findings
Bulletin No. 23 (Fall 1988): Independent Appellate Review
Bulletin No. 22 (Summer 1988): LDRC Juror Attitudes Study III: Private Fiqure (Gross Irresponsibilty) / Newspaper/Defense Win; Supreme Court Report; LDRC Annual Steering Committee Dinner (Anthony Lewis, Jack Anderson, Rowland Evans); LDRC Annual Report 1987
1987:
Bulletin No. 21 (Fall 1987): LDRC Litigation Study # 9: Defamation Trials, Damage Awards and Appeals III: Two Year Update (1984-1986); Supreme Court Consolidated Case List, 1980-1987; LDRC Law Review Library Bibliography; LDRC Brief Bank
Bulletin No. 20 (Summer 1987): Tort Reform and Libel (1987); LDRC Tort Reform Project Update (Part II); LDRC Tort Reform Project Publications List; Supreme Court Report (End of 1986-87 Term Report, The Libel Records of President Reagan's Nominees to Replace Justice Lewis F. Powell)
Bulletin No. 19 (Spring 1987): LDRC Study 18 -- Summary Judgment Motions in Libel Actions: Two-Year Update (1984-1986); LDRC 50-State Survey 1987: Key Findings; LDRC Annual Report 1986
1986:
Bulletin No. 18 (Fall 1986): LDRC Tort Reform Project (Part I); Supreme Court Report - New Term Opens; Supreme Court Consolidated Case List, 1985-86 Term; LDRC Law Review Library Bibliography Update; LDRC Annual Steering Committee Dinner (Judge Lawrence H . Cooke, Newton N. Minow); Amicus Curiae Brief -- Submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. and The Philadelphia Inquirer in Fleming v. Moore
Bulletin No. 17 (Spring 1986): Historical Trends in Media Libel Damage Awards; LDRC SO-State Survey 1985-86: Key Findings; supreme Court Report: Update; Analysis of Libel (Privacy) Rulings by Pending Supreme Court Nominees; Damages Watch: Update; LDRC Annual Report 1985
Bulletin No. 16 (Winter 1986): LDRC Study # 7: Public Official Libel Actions; LDRC Damages Watch: Update; I Supreme Court Report at Mid-term; LDRC Annual Steering Committee Dinner
1985:
Bulletin No. 15 (Fall 1985): LDRC Juror Attitudes Study II: Private Figure/Broadcast; Supreme Court Report; Supreme Court Consolidated Case List 1984-1985 Term; LDRC Law Review Library Bibliography; LDRC Brief Bank
Bulletin No. 14 (Summer 1985): LDRC Jury Attitudes Study; Supreme Court Report, 1984-85 Term
Bulletin No. 13 (Spring 1985): LDRC 50-State Survey 1984: Key Findings; Supreme Court Report; LDRC Damages Watch: Update; LDRC Annual Report
1984:
Bulletin No. 12 (Winter 1984): LDRC Study # 6 -- Summary Judgment Motions in Libel Actions: Two-Year Update; Supreme Court Report; LDRC Annual Steering Committee Dinner
Bulletin No. 11 (Summer/Fall 1984): LDRC Study #5 -- Defamation Trials, Damage Awards and Appeals: Two-Year Update; LDRC Jury Project -- Part 2: Jury Instructions on File at LDRC; Supreme Court Report -- Consolidated Case List for 1983-84 Term
Bulletin No. 10 (Spring 1984): LDRC Jury Project: Preliminary LDRC Study Finds State Pattern Jury Instructions Substantially Deficient; Supreme Court Report; Private Figure Libel Standards Under Gertz -- Is the Battle Really Lost (Part III); LDRC Law Review Library Bibliography; LDRC Brief Bank; News Briefs: LDRC vs. Mobil -- Some Reflections on a Critic of Media "Bias;" Litigious Groups: An Update; LDRC Federal Circuit Survey, LDRC Annual Report
Bulletin No. 9 (Winter 1983-1984): LDRC 50-State Survey 1983: Key Findings; Supreme Court Report: Busy Term Ahead; LDRC Damages Watch; Juries and Damages: Comparing the Media's Libel Experience to Other Civil Litigants; Private Figure Libel Standards Under Gertz-- Is the Battle Really Lost? (Part II); LDRC Brief Bank--New Briefs at LDRC; At LDRC Dinner: Gene Roberts Warns Of Chilling Effects on Journalism; LDRC 1983 Annual Report
1983:
Bulletin No. 8 (Fall 1983): LDRC Study #4 - Motions to Dismiss in Media Libel and Privacy Actions; Supreme C o u r t Update; Recent Broadcaster Experience in Media Libel Trials and Appeals; News Briefs: LDRC Annual Dinner, LDRC Jury Project, Stanford Pilot Jury Study, LDRC Expert Witness Project, Iowa Libel Research Project, LDRC/ANPA/NAB Libel Defense Workshop; New LDRC Publications
Bulletin No. 7 (Spring/Summer 1983): LDRC Study # 3 -- Independent Appellate Review in Libel Actions since NY Times v. Sullivan; Supreme Court Report: Final Actions in 1982-83 Term; LDRC Damages Watch; Litigious Groups; LDRC Brief Bank - New Briefs at LDRC
Bulletin No. 6 (Winter 1983): LDRC Damages Watch; Supreme Court Report; Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress: New Study; LDRC/CBS Brief Bank -- 40 New Briefs at LDRC; Private Figure Fault Standards Under Gertz -- Is the Battle Really Lost?; LIBEL NEWS: Plaintiff's Libel Insurance!; LDRC 1982 Annual Report
1982:
Bulletin No. 5 (Fall 1982): LDRC 50-State Survey 1982 Key Findings; Supreme Court Returns for New Term; LDRC Damages Watch; Noted Jurist and Academic Decry Recent Libel Trends; ACLU Adopts New Libel Policy; LDRC/CBS Brief Bank -- By Case; LDRC/CBS Brief Bank -- By Area of Law and Topic
Bulletin No. 4, Part 2 (Oct. 1982): LDRC Sudy: Summary Judgment in Libel Litigation: Assessing the Impact of Hutchinson v. Proxmire
Bulletin No. 4, Part 1 (Summer 1982): Defamation Trials and Damage Awards: Updating the Franklin Studies; LDRC Trial and Damages Case List; New Publication: Updated “Injury Valuation" Report,Libel and Slander, 1976-1981; Supreme Court Report: Final Actions in 1981-82 Term; At the LDRC: Mid-Summer Status Report
Bulletin No. 3 (Winter 1982): LDRC Annual 50-State Survey; Inquiries: Defamation in Newsgathering, Conterclaims or Counteractions; New Materials in the LDRC Information Bank; Corporate Public Figures; Electronic Publishing -- Defamation and Privacy Issues; Supreme Court Non-Developments; Litigious Groups; Mega-Judgments Reversed, But New Mega-Judgments Entered; Amicus Curiae Activity; At the LDRC -- 1981 Annual Report
1981:
Bulletin No. 2 (Fall 1981): LDRC Damages Project Interim Report; Multi-Million Dollar Libel Verdict Reversed on Appeal (Guccione v. Hustler); Supreme Court Enters New Term, Takes Two Libel Cases; Litigious Groups Still Active; Jury Verdict Research: Followup Study on Verdict Expectancy Values; Expert Testimony - Interim Report; New Publication; At the LDRC; Attachment
Bulletin No. 1 (Summer 1981): Franklin Follow-up Study; Jury Verdict Research Study; Authors Guild Libel Survey; U.S. Supreme Court Hears No Libel; N.J. Supreme Court to Consider Reporters Privilege in Libel Action; Inquiries: Liability of a Mere Printer or Distributor, Use of Expert Witnesses, Briefs Sought on Gertz Standards; Amici Curiae; New Publications; At the LDRC; New Supporters; Publicity; Attachments
