Croswell case

Croswell case, U.S. court case involving freedom of the press. In 1803, Harry Croswell, the editor of the Wasp of Hudson, N.Y., was convicted of libeling President Thomas Jefferson in his newspaper. In his appeal of the conviction to the New York supreme court, Croswell was defended by Alexander Hamilton. In a famous brief, Hamilton argued that freedom of the press consisted in the right to print the truth, if with good motives and for justifiable ends, even if this truth reflected on "the government, magistracy or individuals." Although the court sustained the conviction, the legislature of New York incorporated Hamilton's position into law in 1805. It was the law of libel until 1964, when New York Times Company v. Sullivan expanded the protection of the press.

Case may refer to:

Academia

• Case analysis, division of a problem into separate cases
• Case study, examination of a single instance or event
• Center for Social and Economic Research

Business

• Business case, captures the reasoning for initiating a project or task
• Case Corporation, defunct manufacturer of agricultural equipment and tractors
• W. R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co., American manufacturer of knives
• Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchange

Computing

• Computer-aided software engineering (CASE), use of computers to assist in the software development life cycle
• Case, term in Switch statement, type of control statement in computer programming

Containers and packaging

• Case (goods), package of related merchandise
• Attaché case
• Bookcase
• Briefcase
• Computer case, enclosure that contains the main components of a computer
• Keep case, DVD or CD storage case
• Packing case
• PDA Case
• Suitcase

Education

• Case Western Reserve University, an independent research university in Cleveland, Ohio
• Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering, graduate engineering program, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Council for Advancement and Support of Education, nonprofit association of educational institutions, United States
• Case Middle School, part of Punahou School in Oahu, Hawaii

Entertainment and media

• The Case (film), a Chinese film from 2007
• Case (Henry Dorsett Case), fictional character in Neuromancer

Legal

• Case (policy debate), part of a policy debate in a debate competition
• Legal case, a dispute between opposing parties, being resolved by a court of law

Lingustics

• Grammatical case, a type of linguistic inflection
• Letter case, typography, distinction between majuscule (capital or upper-case) and minuscule (lower-case) letters
• Sentence case, a style of capitalization
• Conceptually Accurate Signed English, a form of Manually Coded English

Personal names

• Case (rabbi) (died c. 1610), Polish religious leader
• Case (singer) (fl. c. 2000), Case Woodard, American musician
• Case (name) (disambig), people with the surname Case

Other

• Case Township, Michigan
• Case-shot, a type of anti-personnel canister ammunition similar to a shrapnel shell
• Casement window

See also

• Casing
• Box
• Casa
• Crate
• Carton
• Container