Word: bederman
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Dates: during 1998-1998
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...laws, who once chuckled over them, are now worried that they chill warnings about food safety. "The statutes at first were regarded as quirky and weird, but they are an area where First Amendment rights are bumping up against commercial interests," says Emory University law professor David Bederman, who tried unsuccessfully to challenge Georgia's food-disparagement law. If such laws had existed in the 1960s, environmentalists say, people would have been afraid to criticize the pesticide DDT, which was considered safe until it was proved to cause cancer and then banned in the U.S. "Going back to Upton Sinclair...
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