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The Impossibility Of Corporate Political Ideology: Upholding Sec Climate Disclosures Against Compelled Commercial Speech Challenges, Erin Murphy
Northwestern University Law Review
To address the increasingly dire climate crisis, the SEC will require public companies to reveal their business’s environmental impact to the market through climate disclosures. Businesses and states challenged the required disclosures as compelled, politically motivated speech that risks putting First Amendment doctrine into further jeopardy. In the past five years, the U.S. Supreme Court has demonstrated an increased propensity to hear compelled speech cases and rule in favor of litigants claiming First Amendment protection from disclosing information that they disagree with or believe to be a politically charged topic. Dissenting liberal Justices have decried these practices as “weaponizing the …
Cracking The Shield: Cda Section 230, Algorithms, And Product Liability, Kevin Ofchus
Cracking The Shield: Cda Section 230, Algorithms, And Product Liability, Kevin Ofchus
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
I Want You To Panic: Leveraging The Rhetoric Of Fear And Rage For The Future Of Food, Iselin Gambert
I Want You To Panic: Leveraging The Rhetoric Of Fear And Rage For The Future Of Food, Iselin Gambert
Journal of Food Law & Policy
"Humanity Is About to Kill 1 Million Species in a Globe-Spanning Murder-Suicide. Only 11 Years Left to Prevent Irreversible Damage from Climate Change." Doomsday headlines like these are terrifying. But are they enough to make us act? The causes of the current climate crisis are many, but the science is clear that the meat and dairy industry shoulders much of the blame. Given the role the animal agriculture industry plays in perpetuating the climate crisis, combined with the harms the industry imposes on the animals and workers within it, politicians and governments—given their degree of power and influence—should ostensibly be …
Manipulation And The First Amendment, Helen Norton
Manipulation And The First Amendment, Helen Norton
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
This Article examines new conceptual tools for understanding manipulation and its harms. More specifically, Part I draws from ethicists' insights to explain how manipulation can inflict harms distinct from those imposed by coercion and deception, and to explain why addressing these distinct harms is a government interest sufficiently strong to justify appropriately tailored interventions.
Part II explores how these conceptual tools also help us understand when, how, and why government can regulate manipulation consistent with the First Amendment. As a threshold matter, note that manipulative online interfaces and related design choices may be better understood as conduct, rather than speech …
The Regulation Of Commercial Speech: Can Alternative Meat Companies Have Their Beef And Speak It Too?, Eryn Terry
The Regulation Of Commercial Speech: Can Alternative Meat Companies Have Their Beef And Speak It Too?, Eryn Terry
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Would you eat a hamburger that was made in a petri dish? Consumers may have this option soon as laboratory-grown meat begins to hit supermarket shelves. Laboratory-grown meat is made from animal stem cells that eventually transform into primitive fibers and tissue within the confines of a petri dish. Although a lot remains unknown about laboratory-grown meat, consumers can think of it as meat production without the farm. How might consumers react to meat labels indicating that their products were made in a petri dish? Laboratory-grown meat companies have yet to find out, as some states have passed laws that …
The Compelled Commercial Speech Cases: Why Not Just Flip A Coin?, R. George Wright
The Compelled Commercial Speech Cases: Why Not Just Flip A Coin?, R. George Wright
Mercer Law Review
Government regulation of commercial enterprises takes many forms. Among the most familiar forms are requirements that commercial speakers convey particular government-approved commercial messages, presumably for the sake of some sufficient benefit to the persons thereby informed. This Article discusses the difficult problems generated by the case law of compelled commercial speech. Controversies and important paradoxes are examined herein, on the way to the surprising conclusion that in light of the ordinarily limited interests on both sides of the case, typical compelled commercial speech cases can be responsibly resolved, all else equal, by merely flipping a coin.
First, the Article briefly …
Fosta: A Necessary Step In Advancement Of The Women’S Rights Movement, Alexandra Sanchez
Fosta: A Necessary Step In Advancement Of The Women’S Rights Movement, Alexandra Sanchez
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
This Isn't Lochner, It's The First Amendment: Reorienting The Right To Contract And Commercial Speech, William French
This Isn't Lochner, It's The First Amendment: Reorienting The Right To Contract And Commercial Speech, William French
Northwestern University Law Review
The commercial speech doctrine has long weathered accusations that it is simply an attempt to reinvigorate the laissez-faire protections provided by Lochner v. New York. The modern interpretation of Lochner is generally condemnatory, arguing that its “right to contract” is a symbol of the Supreme Court’s unprincipled decision to impose its own economic preferences upon the nation. Even though Lochnerism itself has been dead for nearly 100 years, some scholars believe that the First Amendment’s commercial speech doctrine is on its way to replicating the defenses provided by the right to contract. The argument goes that because speech pervades …
Platforms, The First Amendment And Online Speech: Regulating The Filters, Sofia Grafanaki
Platforms, The First Amendment And Online Speech: Regulating The Filters, Sofia Grafanaki
Pace Law Review
In recent years, online platforms have given rise to multiple discussions about what their role is, what their role should be, and whether they should be regulated. The complex nature of these private entities makes it very challenging to place them in a single descriptive category with existing rules. In today’s information environment, social media platforms have become a platform press by providing hosting as well as navigation and delivery of public expression, much of which is done through machine learning algorithms. This article argues that there is a subset of algorithms that social media platforms use to filter public …
Commercial Clicks: Advertising Algorithms As Commercial Speech, Kerri A. Thompson
Commercial Clicks: Advertising Algorithms As Commercial Speech, Kerri A. Thompson
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Congressional hearings have finally called for the "right regulation" of social media platforms. The First Amendment, however, has shielded internet companies from regulation since the birth of social media. Even if Congress enacts legislation now, internet companies will be able to defend against the "wrong regulation" by claiming the regulation unconstitutionally limits their freedom of speech. This Article uses Facebook's advertising algorithms as a case study of how Congress can properly regulate Facebook by analyzing the advertising algorithms as commercial speech, which receives less protection under First Amendment jurisprudence. In doing so, Congress can protect the strong public interest in …
Compelled Commercial Disclosures: Zauderer’S Application To Non-Misleading Commercial Speech, Alexis Mason
Compelled Commercial Disclosures: Zauderer’S Application To Non-Misleading Commercial Speech, Alexis Mason
University of Miami Law Review
In 1980, the Supreme Court held that a prohibition on commercial speech is subject to intermediate scrutiny. Roughly five years later, in Zauderer, the Court provided guidance on specific instances in which the government may compel commercial speech. The Court held that a requirement that goods or services disclose “factual and uncontroversial” information is constitutional so long as the requirement is not unduly burdensome, and the requirement is “reasonably related to the State’s interest in preventing deception of consumers.” This holding applied a rational basis standard of review to compelled commercial speech aimed at curing deception of consumers.
Despite …
Harmonizing The Tension Between The First Amendment And Publicity Rights And Finding The Right Balance: Discerning How Much Freedom Is Warranted And What Needs Protection, William Buchsbaum
Harmonizing The Tension Between The First Amendment And Publicity Rights And Finding The Right Balance: Discerning How Much Freedom Is Warranted And What Needs Protection, William Buchsbaum
The University of Cincinnati Intellectual Property and Computer Law Journal
This paper examines the tension between the First Amendment and Publicity Rights considering why and how friction is emerging, the legal underpinnings and theories behind the development of publicity rights and how to reconcile this with values raised in support of the First Amendment. This collision course of rights occurs where property interests have vested in human identity itself which brings us face to face with the outer limits of free speech and expression under the First Amendment and evens tests the notion of how we define speech. The paper takes a dive into some of the currently arising issues …
Playing Word Games With New York’S No Surcharge Law, Katie Coggins
Playing Word Games With New York’S No Surcharge Law, Katie Coggins
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Icarus Syndrome: How Credit Rating Agencies Lost Their Quasi Immunity, Norbert Gaillard, Michael Waibel
The Icarus Syndrome: How Credit Rating Agencies Lost Their Quasi Immunity, Norbert Gaillard, Michael Waibel
SMU Law Review
Subsequent to the 2007–2008 subprime crisis, the SEC and the US Senate discovered that it was common practice for major credit rating agencies (CRAs) to produce inflated and inaccurate structured finance ratings. A host of explanations were posited on how this was able to happen from the “issuer pays” model of CRAs and conflicts of interest to underscoring the CRA’s regulatory license and their ensuing insulation from legal liability. Historically, credit ratings were akin to opinions. However, when courts started to consider structured finance ratings as commercial speech in the 2000s, CRAs became more vulnerable to litigation. This article studies …
Agricultural And Food Law—Food Labeling And Biotechnology—The Food Fight Over Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods And A Natural Solution To Protect Agricultural Biotechnology In The Natural State, Katie W. Branscum
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Rediscovering Liberty Of Contract: The Unnoticed Economic Right Contained In The Freedom Of Speech, Steven C. Begakis
Rediscovering Liberty Of Contract: The Unnoticed Economic Right Contained In The Freedom Of Speech, Steven C. Begakis
Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
The liberty of contract formation is a form of speech, and thus it is a right guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.This Article examines how the First Amendment secures the liberty of contract formation and analyzes how that liberty is supported by the U.S. Supreme Court’s commercial speech jurisprudence and by both originalist and traditionalist theories of Constitutional interpretation.
First Amendment Commercial Speech—Swipe Fees Mute Texas Merchants, Shelby T. Perry
First Amendment Commercial Speech—Swipe Fees Mute Texas Merchants, Shelby T. Perry
SMU Law Review
No abstract provided.
Cultural Democracy And The First Amendment, Jack M. Balkin
Cultural Democracy And The First Amendment, Jack M. Balkin
Northwestern University Law Review
Freedom of speech secures cultural democracy as well as political democracy. Just as it is important to make state power accountable to citizens, it is also important to give people a say over the development of forms of cultural power that transcend the state. In a free society, people should have the right to participate in the forms of meaning-making that shape who they are and that help constitute them as individuals.
The digital age shows the advantages of a cultural theory over purely democracy-based theories. First, the cultural account offers a more convincing explanation of why expression that seems …
The Air Jordan Rules: Image Advertising Adds New Dimension To Right Of Publicity–First Amendment Tension, Stephen Mckelvey, Jonathan Goins, Frederick Krauss
The Air Jordan Rules: Image Advertising Adds New Dimension To Right Of Publicity–First Amendment Tension, Stephen Mckelvey, Jonathan Goins, Frederick Krauss
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
Every year, corporations spend on average nearly thirty-five billion dollars on sports-related marketing, ranging from stadium naming rights and promotional sponsorships, to commercials and endorsement deals. In mining through some of the potential legal traps, corporate advertisers understand that utilizing the name, image, or likeness of athletes or celebrities in marketing and promotional campaigns requires some form of consent and compensation. Corporations hire lawyers for “advertising clearance”: to ensure that slogans, logos, and images are available for use, and that video and music in audio-visual recordings are otherwise licensed. The concept of getting permission or authorization is relatively straight-forward. However, …
The Calm After The Storm: First Amendment Cases In The Supreme Court’S 2000-2001 Term, Joel Gora
The Calm After The Storm: First Amendment Cases In The Supreme Court’S 2000-2001 Term, Joel Gora
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
On Commercial—And Corporate—Speech, Jonathan Weinberg
By Any Other Name: Image Advertising And The Commercial Speech Doctrine In Jordan V. Jewel, Kelly Miller
By Any Other Name: Image Advertising And The Commercial Speech Doctrine In Jordan V. Jewel, Kelly Miller
Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review
This Comment focuses on the commercial speech doctrine as applied to modern advertising strategies, specifically, corporate image advertising. It centers on the recent litigation between basketball superstar Michael Jordan and a Chicago-area grocery chain, Jewel-Osco. When Michael Jordan was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, Jewel-Osco was invited to submit a congratulatory ad for a commemorative issue of Sports Illustrated devoted exclusively to Jordan’s career and accomplishments. Because Jordan had spent the bulk of his storied professional basketball career with the Chicago Bulls, the ad seemed a natural fit. Jordan, who did not give permission for his name to …
First Amendment; Freedom Of Speech; Commerical Speech And Advertising; Metpath, Inc. V. Imperato, Sheryl S. Kantz
First Amendment; Freedom Of Speech; Commerical Speech And Advertising; Metpath, Inc. V. Imperato, Sheryl S. Kantz
Akron Law Review
"The decision of Metpath, Inc. v. Imperato is indicative of the growing trend of the judiciary toward affording "commercial speech" the protective shield of the first amendment. As shown by Metpath, where the concern is advertising by a medical clinic, speech with commercial overtones is afforded protection where a public interest in the subject and content of the speech is demonstrated. However, the perimeters of such protection have not been defined by this or previous decisions."
From Bigelow To Shapero: Steps Along The Way In Attorney Advertising, Horace E. Johns
From Bigelow To Shapero: Steps Along The Way In Attorney Advertising, Horace E. Johns
Akron Law Review
In essence, the rationale for denying attorneys the right to advertise was to protect the public from overly-zealous attorneys who might be inclined to utilize unscrupulous methods to take advantage of unknowing clients.
Five reasons have been offered to support bans on advertising; (1) protection of consumers from misrepresentation concerning both price and the likelihood of successful litigation; (2) commercialization of the legal profession, resulting in neglect of clients; (3) prevention of overcharging and the securing of too many cases by attorneys to cover the costs of advertising; (4) protection of the bar's integrity; and (5) initiation of too many …
The Export Administration Act's Technical Data Regulations: Do They Violate The First Amendment?, Kenneth Kalivoda
The Export Administration Act's Technical Data Regulations: Do They Violate The First Amendment?, Kenneth Kalivoda
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
A Balanced Diet Of First Amendment Cases, Joel Gora
A Balanced Diet Of First Amendment Cases, Joel Gora
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Compelled Commercial Speech, Robert Post
Compelled Commercial Speech, Robert Post
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Solicitors' Right To Advertise: A Historical And Comparative Analysis, M. Catherine Harris
Solicitors' Right To Advertise: A Historical And Comparative Analysis, M. Catherine Harris
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Stubborn Things: An Empirical Approach To Facts, Opinions, And The First Amendment, Daniel E. Herz-Roiphe
Stubborn Things: An Empirical Approach To Facts, Opinions, And The First Amendment, Daniel E. Herz-Roiphe
Michigan Law Review First Impressions
This essay offers an empirical approach to the problem, rooted in an argument that the underlying rationale for the fact/opinion distinction in compelled speech doctrine tells us something about how this distinction should be policed. Commercial speech enjoys protection by virtue of its value to listeners, it is from the listener's vantage point, then, that courts should assess whether a compelled disclosure is fact or opinion. And if we are interested in learning how disclosures will affect listeners, we might try asking them, just as courts adjudicating trademark suits frequently use consumer surveys to determine how customers understand the meaning …
Appellate Division, First Department, Courtroom Television Network Llc V. New York, Paula Gilbert
Appellate Division, First Department, Courtroom Television Network Llc V. New York, Paula Gilbert
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.