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"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."
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"When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory."
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