This volume takes a historical approach in analyzing all of the major United States Supreme Court cases relevant to the conflict between a free press and fair trial. Campbell's thorough analysis, which relates 30 primary cases to each other and to nearly 70 associated supporting cases, consists of five parts: (1) legal backgrounds; (2) immediate historical circumstances giving rise to the cases; (3) complete summaries of all court opinions, concurring opinions, and dissenting opinions, often using the Justices' own words; (4) the Court's ruling; and (5) analysis of the significance of the cases.

DOUGLAS S. CAMPBELL is Chair of the Department of English, Journalism, and Philosophy at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Law Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and the author of The Supreme Court and the Mass Media (Praeger, 1990).