We have been looking at what’s happening in the Bay Area to municipal regulations that would require warning labels on soda and cell phones. Industry claims that these warning labels violate their First Amendment rights by compelling speech. The cities contend that they are factual and uncontroversial disclosures on commercial speech, and raise only trivial First … Continue reading Win Against Cynical Use of First Amendment to Trash Warning Labels…
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The Corporate Takeover of the First Amendment: All Eyes on the Bay Area
Look to the Bay Area for new battles on the commercial speech front. In these fights, you can really see how the conservative movement’s campaign against regulation is deploying the First Amendment. First, there’s the cellphone industry fight against Berkeley’s new requirement that mobile phone vendors warn against cell phone radiation. The warning reads: “If … Continue reading The Corporate Takeover of the First Amendment: All Eyes on the Bay Area…