Whether this Court should overrule New York Times v. Sullivan

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether this Court should overrule New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964). 2. Whether even if this Court elects not overrule Sullivan in its entirety, it should revise Sullivan’s “actual malice” rule so that this exacting standard does not apply to awards of actual damages in defamation cases brought by public officials or public figures and, instead, only applies to awards of punitive and presumed damages in such cases. 3. Whether an unelected local public-school budget/finance director with no access to the public purse or public funds, no policy-making responsibilities, and no media duties, should have to forfeit substantial common law protections as to her individual reputation by being designated as a “public official” under the status prong of Rosenblatt v. Baer, 383 U.S. 75 (1966).