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US rejects Nike free speech.(Brief Article)
Multinational advertisers could face fresh legal challenges from pressure groups in the wake of the blow to freedom of commercial speech dealt by the US Supreme Court last week.
Ad industry leaders in the US and Europe have been stunned by the court's verdict that a campaign by Nike rebuffing claims that it uses sweatshop labour is not protected by the right to free speech.
Now they fear that activists all over the world will be encouraged to use the courts in their attempts to stop advertisers defending themselves on contentious issues.
Nike, which is being sued by a Californian anti-globalisation campaigner for making false claims about its treatment of workers in the Far East, had argued ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor Richey, Warren January 19, 2000 700+ words
...the patient. The US Supreme Court will consider on Jan...an essential right, free speech, when that speech...Setting precedent? The Supreme Court's view will help...minimal intrusion of free-speech rights, since protesters...
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...2009 Justices hear free speech case focused on dogfights...focused on limits of free speech ; Supreme Court debates ban selling...exceptionally lively Supreme Court argument on Tuesday in the most important free speech case this term...
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- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) June 24, 1995 700+ words
...however, the United States Supreme Court said the Irish were legally justified...Hurley's jamboree. Now the Supreme Court, in a unanimous and meticulously...The court made the ruling on free-speech grounds. "The very idea...
- Student fees raise questions of free speech; Supreme Court weighs if using...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor Richey, Warren November 9, 1999 700+ words
...officials, rather than treading on free speech, the mandatory student fees help...the dispute moves to the US Supreme Court where the justices must decide...debate on campus does not violate free speech. They argue that the student...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Ana Puga, Globe Staff October 13, 1994 700+ words
...over the right to hand out anonymous political pamphlets sparked unusually passionate defenses of free speech yesterday by several Supreme Court justices. "I would have thought that if the First Amendment stood for anything at all, it stood...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Knight-Ridder Service November 28, 1996 700+ words
...and now faces an unprecedented constitutional free-speech test in the Supreme Court. "If the amendment had been in effect, and...unless formidable procedural hurdles block the Supreme Court from reaching the constitutional issues. The...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Curriden, Mark April 24, 2001 700+ words
...traditional forms of free speech. If the Supreme Court decides it does...over commercial free speech. And they are split...Since 1942, the Supreme Court has distinguished...viewpoint" or political free speech and commercial speech...
- FREE SPEECH MISSING AT SUPREME COURT.(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) October 8, 2002 700+ words
...any guide, the Supreme Court's new term...broad view of free speech in their rulings...court has invoked free-speech principles to...literally abridge free speech, but they inhibit...court and state supreme court allows note...
