The 17-month intermittent trial produced enough testimony of extramarital adventures on both sides, said the judge, 'to make Dr. Freud's hair curl.

'”[1] Following the publication, Mary Firestone filed suit in a Florida state court against Time, Inc., seeking $100,000 in damages for libel.

[3] In a 6–2 vote, Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote the majority opinion vacating the lower judgment and remanding.

The Supreme Court held that the actual malice standard for media reports on public figures did not apply.

Justice Lewis Powell wrote a concurrence, stating that the ultimate question is whether Time exercised reasonably prudent care in light of the ambiguous divorce decree.