Word: free-speech
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...groups and ruled that attorneys-as well as doctors or other members of so-called learned professions-were not automatically exempt from antitrust laws. The same day the court held that the right of an abortion-referral agency to run informational advertisements is protected by the free-speech guarantee. In a talk to a lawyers' group, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Bruce Wilson spelled out a blunt warning: "An agreement to restrict advertising of legal service could be held to be a violation of the antitrust laws...
...free-speech issue was particularly easy for him. He simply saw no exceptions to the First Amendment's command. With the late Hugo Black, he filed unwavering dissents in sedition and related cases during the McCarthy era, although he condemned Communism's "miserable merchants of unwanted ideas." In the '60s, when even Black balked occasionally at disruptions caused by some protesters, Douglas hewed to his view that dissenting speech could never legally be curtailed. He followed a similar pattern in suits concerning the rights of criminal defendants. No matter what the real or imagined burdens...
...role as a Supreme Court Justice, and even occasionally a more liberal bent. In two cases involving antitrust law and criminal procedure, his vote tipped the result 5 to 4 against the conservatives. In a First Amendment case, Burger may have been following Blackmun. The junior Minnesotan expanded the free-speech protection of advertisements and cited with approval a dissent from an opinion he himself had written only a year earlier. Once its slowest writer of opinions, Blackmun no longer half kills himself by personally double-checking every case citation in every opinion he writes or joins...
...companies for data to back their claims. If the commission deems any ads misleading, it may demand that the companies run corrective ads. In that case, there could be a legal battle. The FTC has jurisdiction over product ads, but institutional ads may well be covered by the free-speech provisions of the First Amendment...
...region not self-conscious about the East, the only region which dares to be independent without being defiant. And it can even make the East feel self-conscious about itself. The state is enigmatic; it harbors Shirley Temple Black and Huey Newton, Berkeley and Orange Country. It spawned the free-speech movement and has the largest enrollment in the John Birch Society of any state. It has at once San Francisco and Los Angeles...