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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...
SMOLIK: At Dow, we typically work with customers rather than suppliers because our suppliers are the oil companies and such. Our customers are typically companies that make products for consumers--a Nike or a Procter & Gamble. A lot of times, we have the technology for a better, more sustainable raw material that they can use. Nike, for example, is a consumer-product company, so just as soon as some particular component becomes very unpopular, they switch pretty quickly. That's why socially responsible investors and environmental groups are good. They put pressure on the system. They put pressure...