June 24, 2011
The Supreme Court has issued its decision in Sorrell v. IMS Health, Inc. The most significant aspect of this case is that the Court, by a vote of 6-3, recognizes that business enterprises have a First Amendment right to sell and purchase information generated by commercial transactions. This case extends and expands the recent trend finding that [...]
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June 21, 2011
The federal Food and Drug Administration has designed nine new warning labels for cigarette packages and advertisements depicting graphic color images of persons suffering the effects of smoking, including a close-up of cancerous mouth sores,  a man smoking through a tracheotomy, a mother blowing smoke at her baby, and a corpse. Is it constitutional under the First Amendment [...]
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