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Information V. Commercialization: The Internet And Unsolicited Electronic Mail, Karin M. Mika
Information V. Commercialization: The Internet And Unsolicited Electronic Mail, Karin M. Mika
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
In November of 1996, the District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania allowed America Online to prohibit a business from using the Internet for sending bulk, unsolicited electronic mail. The decision highlighted some intriguing issues related to how the Internet interacts with the current legal framework and how legal standards that have adequately encompassed most business uses for emerging technologies are not a perfect fit for issues related to the Internet. This article will focus on the current struggle to fit the Internet into some type of existing legal framework, especially with respect to Internet business uses. It will focus primarily on …
Constitutional Qualms Concerning: Government Restrictions On Tobacco Product Advertising, Barbara A. Noah
Constitutional Qualms Concerning: Government Restrictions On Tobacco Product Advertising, Barbara A. Noah
Faculty Scholarship
This Article evaluates the constitutionality of a representative series of congressional proposals to limit tobacco advertising. Federal legislation codifying the tobacco settlement included possible restrictions on outdoor advertising, a prohibition on the use of cartoon images, permitting only tombstone format for advertisements in publications that target a youth audience, a prohibition on the sale or gift of promotional items bearing tobacco product names or logos, a ban on industry sponsorship of sporting and other cultural events, and restrictions on Internet promotions. The Author suggests that upon seeking to prevent tobacco companies from encouraging illegal tobacco use by minors, the FDA's …
Quo Vadis, Posadas?, William W. Van Alstyne
Quo Vadis, Posadas?, William W. Van Alstyne
Faculty Scholarship
This examination looks at Virginia's ban on speech advertising motorcycles and revisits the question raised in the Posadas decision - may a state ban speech about a legal product the state could ban if it so desired. This article uses comparisons to the government employee speech cases to further illuminate the issue.