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57 Syracuse L. Rev. 157 (2006-2007)
Injunctions in Defamation Cases

handle is hein.journals/syrlr57 and id is 165 raw text is: INJUNCTIONS IN DEFAMATION CASES Erwin Chemerinskyt CONTENTS INTRO D UCTION .......................................................................................... 157 I. INJUNCTIONS IN DEFAMATION CASES: THE EXAMPLE OF TORY V. C O CH RAN ..................................................................................... 158 II. INJUNCTIONS IN DEFAMATION CASES ARE INHERENTLY AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRIOR RESTRAINT ......................................... 163 A. Injunctions Are Prior Restraints ..................... 163 B. Injunctions Are Unconstitutional as a Remedy in D efam ation Cases .................................................................... 166 1. Permanent Injunctions Historically Have Not Been a Permissible Remedy in Defamation Actions ...................... 167 2. Damages Are a Sufficient Remedy for Plaintiffs in D efam ation Cases .............................................................. 168 3. Effective Injunctions in Defamation Cases Are Inherently Overbroad and Inevitably Put Courts in the Role of Being Perpetual Censors Determining Whether Speech Can O ccur ............................................................ 171 C O N CLU SION .............................................................................................. 172 INTRODUCTION Is an injunction a permissible remedy in a defamation case? The traditional answer is that equity will not enjoin a defamation,' but an t Alston & Bird Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law. Also, served as counsel to Ulysses Tory and Ruth Craft in the United States Supreme Court in Tory v. Cochran, 544 U.S. 734 (2005) and for Anne Lemen in the California Supreme Court in Balboa Island Vill. Inn v. Lemen, 102 P.3d 904 (Cal. 2004). 1 am especially grateful to my co-counsel in these cases, Jean-Paul Jassy, for all of his extraordinary efforts and for making working on these cases such a pleasure. 1. See RODNEY SMOLLA, LAW OF DEFAMATION § 9:85 (2d ed. 1999); Michael 1. Meyerson, The Neglected History of the Prior Restraint Doctrine: Rediscovering the Link Between the First Amendment and Separation of Powers, 34 IND. L. REv. 295, 308-11, 324- 30 (2001).

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