BRENNAN, J., Concurring Opinion

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

418 U.S. 241

Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo

APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA

MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN, with whom MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST joins, concurring.

I join the Court's opinion which, as I understand it, addresses only "right of reply" statutes, and implies no view upon the constitutionality of "retraction" statutes affording plaintiffs able to prove defamatory falsehoods a statutory action to require publication of a retraction. [p259] See generally Note, Vindication of the Reputation of a Public Official, 80 Harv.L.Rev. 1730, 1739-1747 (1967).