Early in the movie, a labor leader and his attorney meet with the show's producer to state that an actor's portrayal of a person having that labor leader's character is "slander." The producer replies that the labor leader is a public figure, and so the test of defamation is more difficult than simple slander. That test, the Public Figure test, was not developed until ten years after the year the movie takes place. This is correct insofar as federal Constitutional law is concerned, in New York Times vs. Sullivan. However, the public figure test had been adopted by various state supreme courts well before the U.S. Supreme Court adopted it nationally, so it is not necessarily incorrect that a public figure would have a harder time proving slander, even in 1954.
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