Clark defended The Post's position against U.S. Clark was among a team of lawyers who advised Post editors either not to publish stories based on the study or to wait until final resolution of the injunction against the Times.īut after Post executives went ahead with publication, Mr.
ROGER CLARK SERIES
The papers were obtained first by the New York Times, which in June 1971 began publishing a series of articles based on their content.Īfter the Justice Department won a court order restraining the Times from continuing to publish its series, The Post obtained a copy of the top-secret study.
decision-making processes up to and during the war in Vietnam. The Pentagon Papers case involved a 47-volume, top-secret U.S. Clark won a reversal of that judgment in the Supreme Court, citing case law to the effect that in libel lawsuits a public figure must prove that a publisher acted with "actual malice" in order to win a judgment. The case involved publication of a description of a Greenbelt City Council meeting in which Bresler was accused of "blackmail." Bresler, an associate of then-Vice President Spiro T. In addition to The Post, his newspaper clients included the weekly Greenbelt News Review, which in 1969 was ordered to pay a $17,500 libel judgment in a lawsuit brought by Prince George's County developer and politician Charles S. His career included newspaper cases involving First Amendment rights fraud cases involving commodities and securities cases involving white-collar crime, customs and international trade, and employment discrimination and a variety of commercial disputes. Clark had practiced law in Washington for almost 40 years. Clark, 64, a senior litigator and partner in the Washington law firm of Rogers & Wells who participated in the famed Pentagon Papers case as counsel for The Washington Post in 1971, died of cancer yesterday at his home in Chevy Chase.
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