New York Times Co. v. United States

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New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971) was a United States Supreme Court decision. The ruling made it possible for the New York Times and Washington Post newspapers to publish the then-classified Pentagon Papers without risk of government censure.