INDELIBLE INK: THE TRIALS OF JOHN PETER ZENGER AND THE BIRTH OF AMERICA’S FREE PRESS By Richard Kluger W.W. Norton, $27.95, 334 pages History needs heroes. But sometimes they must be created out of ...

ALBANY — It's been several centuries since attorneys and judges in powdered wigs argued points of law at a federal courthouse in Albany. But that was the scene Wednesday evening at the James T. Foley ...

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It was probably the most significant moment in the struggle for freedom of the press in America. And, in the best tradition of New York, it was dramatic too in a spectacular way. John Peter Zenger was ...

It was surprising to not read the name of Anna Zenger in Mark Spencer’s review of Richard Kluger’s “Indelible Ink” (“The Birth of America’s Free Press,” Books, Dec. 24). Were it not for her, the New ...

ALBANY — The legal case that serves as a sort of prehistory of the First Amendment will be dramatized and discussed at the James T. Foley U.S. Courthouse beginning at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The ...

President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News reminded me of a famous legal case that I teach my journalism students each semester at Boise State University. It’s known as the Zenger trial. The ...

to judges and away from jurors. Trial attorneys today are severely restricted in their ability to inform jurors of their power (if not their right) to decide the law as well as the facts of a case. No ...