LEGL 020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Misdemeanor, Aspirin
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According to the us supreme court speech boils down into: st amendment. Political speech congress shouldn"t make any (unreasonable) law. Restricted to regulations regarding time, place, and manner, ex: you can wake up anyone with a sound in your car saying that you hate ice cream. If the state or federal government show a compelling general interest they can regulate it, ex: they can prohibit you from saying you have a bomb in the airport if you don"t. Commercial speech advertising and regulable by federal government and for intrastate commerce in for state. All the side effects in the pharmaceutical ads that was regulated by the government and regulatory agencies. Regulations regarding time, place, and manner as well. Ads cannot be false (makes you reach the wrong conclusion), misleading, or deceptive.