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Advertising has always had second-class status among the forms of discourse covered by the First Amendment's freedom-of-speech guarantees. The Supreme Court, notes Columbia Law Professor Vincent Blasi, "has clearly said that commercial advertising is not protected to the same degree as political debate or artistic expression." Indeed, the court upheld without comment the 1971 ban on broadcast cigarette ads. Since then, however, the Justices have been sheltering commercial speech more aggressively. In 1980 the court struck down a New York rule that sought to conserve energy by banning utility ads promoting electricity use. Before the Government...
...People must address the question of whether human beings in the U.S. have a right to better shelter than a dumpster," says Gary Blasi, a Los Angeles lawyer for the homeless. In Washington, Homeless Advocate Snyder managed to get a referendum passed "guaranteeing adequate overnight shelter," which if approved by Congress could make the city responsible for housing 5,000 to 15,000 people a night. Because last week's freeze served to focus national attention, Snyder said, "we were rooting for the cold." He is afraid, though, that the homeless may soon be conveniently forgotten, returning to their semivisible...
...court, it would appear, is already primed for a switch; a single appointment might be all the shove that it needs. But even for a determinedly conservative court, reversing Roe would be a momentous step. Since so many women have relied on the decision, says Columbia's Blasi, to overturn it "would be Prohibition all over again...
...reaching in the U.S., does not proscribe an unauthorized but accurate biography. Thanks to the First Amendment, docudrama writers are probably entitled to invent some plausible dialogue and embellish events a bit. But at some point that free speech protection runs out. Says University of Michigan Law Professor Vincent Blasi: "When you dramatize for the sake of making her life more interesting than it is, then the courts are more likely to say you've gone...
...anyone else. The outburst caused many to wonder if Burger did not have a personal peeve against the press. "There is a certain undertone of resentment against the press, a sort of 'Who do they think they are?' feeling among a few Justices," remarked Michigan's Blasi. But he warned against overplaying the court as antipress. Like other First Amendment experts, Blasi points to a little-noticed unanimous decision striking down criminal sanctions against a newspaper for disclosing confidential state proceedings against a judge in Virginia. With sweeping language-written by Press Nemesis Burger-the court effectively...