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Fighting Freestyle: The First Amendment, Fairness, And Corporate Reputation, Rebecca Tushnet
Fighting Freestyle: The First Amendment, Fairness, And Corporate Reputation, Rebecca Tushnet
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There are three distinct groups who might want to engage in speech about commercial entities or to constrain those commercial entities from making particular claims of their own. Competitors may sue each other for false advertising, consumers may sue businesses, and government regulators may impose requirements on what businesses must and may not say. In this context, this Article will evaluate a facially persuasive but ultimately misguided claim about corporate speech: that because consumers regularly get to say nasty things about corporations under the lax standards governing defamation of public figures, corporations must be free to make factual claims subject …