Word: speech
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...speech to the U.S. businessmen, Gorbachev offered only moderate encouragement. The Soviet leader criticized American policies that link trade with politics. One U.S. law, for example, limits trade because of Soviet barriers to Jewish emigration. Even so, at least one new deal has been struck. Avon Products announced an agreement last week to swap about $4 million of its cosmetics for Soviet china and crystal...
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...
...answer for the A.M.A. is not to ban ads but "to speak out more," says Attorney Floyd Abrams, a free-speech specialist who has advised media and tobacco companies. "First Amendment theory says that if speech is troubling, we counter it with speech that responds." Undaunted, the A.M.A. will soon begin drafting model legislation. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court could signal its current thinking on the subject of ad bans in the next few months. The high bench is expected to rule on a First Amendment challenge to a Puerto Rican law that bans local advertising by the island's legal...
...days the King of England could tell you what you said was treason, and you would have to be quarantined in the Tower. But then modern man developed Freedom of Speech (which, of course, I am now enjoying, as did Jeff Wise in "Not Taking Chances," December...
There remain many ways to attack pornography's current dependence on First Amendment protection without damaging civil liberties in the slightest. For instance, one could re-define pornography as "non-speech," not falling under the aegis of the First Amendment. But while the current wildly permissive interpretation of the Bill of Rights would never permit anti-pornography legislation, newer theories of justice, such as Rawls's and communitarianism, cannot be used to defeat such ordinances...