Word: nike
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...Supreme Court announced last week that it will hear the case where Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe will defend Nike, Inc., the world’s largest shoe manufacturer, in a case that concerns one of the most hotly contested legal topics in the last twenty years—commercial speech...
...Nike, Inc. is being sued by a San Francisco-based activist, claiming that the company lied about the conditions in its overseas plants. The suit maintains that the public statements Nike had made about the conditions in its overseas plants constituted false advertising...
...California Supreme Court ruled against Nike last May, rejecting the company’s defense that its public statements were protected under free speech...
Tribe, who was approached by Nike after the California ruling, wrote in an e-mail that he regarded the California Supreme Court’s ruling rejecting Nike’s defense as “outrageous...
came on as an attorney for Nike last summer and lobbied for the Supreme Court to hear the case...