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Commercial Speech IV

From Yale Law School’s Abrams Institute for Freedom of Speech

COMMERCIAL SPEECH AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT

June 3, 2019 - 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

New York, NY

READINGS: Scroll to the bottom of the page

COMMERCIAL SPEECH POST-NIFLA v. BECERRA:  LEGITIMATE CHECK ON COMPELLED SPEECH OR WEAPONIZATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT?

Panelists:

  • Robert Post – Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
  • Coleen Klasmeier – Partner and Global Coordinator of the Food, Drug and Medical Device Regulatory Practice Area Team at Sidley & Austin LLP, Washington, D.C.
  • Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Moderator: 

  • Joel Kurtzberg – Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, New York, NY

While the United States Supreme Court’s recent decision in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra is technically not a commercial speech case, the decision is part of a recent trend of cases applying strict scrutiny, with few exceptions, to “content-based regulations of speech,” defined broadly as any law that targets speech based on its communicative content.  Assuming the Supreme Court means what it says in NIFLA and other recent decisions, how far are the Justices willing to go in undoing government regulation of speech?   Does NIFLA mark the death-knell of Central Hudson?  Will strict scrutiny apply to most future regulations of commercial speech?  Is the future one filled with challenges to the vast array of governmental regulation that engages speech?   

THE CONSUMER “RIGHT TO KNOW” VERSUS THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Panelists:

  • Jonathan H. Adler – Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Director, Center for Business Law and Regulation, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland OH
  • Rebecca Tushnet – Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
  • Helgi C. Walker – Partner, Appellate and Constitutional Law Group and Co-Chair, Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Group, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC

Moderator: 

  • Jonah Knobler, Partner, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, New York, NY

Increasingly, governments at all levels are requiring product manufacturers to disclose information in their labeling or advertising, and plaintiffs are seeking to hold manufacturers liable in tort on the theory that the failure to disclose such information is “misleading” or “unfair.”  Meanwhile, the subject matter of these disclosure requirements (or asserted requirements) continues to expand beyond traditional health-and-safety warnings to include information about, e.g., country of origin, inclusion of GMO ingredients, and use of ingredients or materials “tainted” by unfair labor practices or international conflicts.

This panel will address the tension—if any—between such mandatory disclosure regimes and manufacturers’ First Amendment right to refrain from compelled speech. 

DRAWING THE LINE BETWEEN “NEWS” AND COMMERCIAL SPEECH

Panelists:

  • Mary Engle – Associate Director, Division of Advertising Practices, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC
  • Rhonda Powell - General Counsel, Buzzfeed, New York, NY
  • Paul Safier – Of Counsel, Ballard Spahr LLP, Philadelphia, PA

Moderator:  

  • Terri Seligman – Partner and Co-Chair of the Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations Group, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, New York, NY

This panel will focus on recent decisions defining what is and is not commercial speech from the broad perspective of newsworthiness.  Recently, there have been several decisions in which the courts and National Advertising Division have been forced to distinguish between news and commercial speech.  Are we seeing a trend toward more liberal interpretations of “news” or “newsworthiness”? What implications does this line-drawing have for the right of publicity, native advertising, and custom content?  Where will the increasing use and monetization of data fall on the news/commercial speech divide?

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New York, NY 10036

Additional sponsors:       

Ballard Spahr LLP

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC

CLE credit is pending

READINGS:

1st Session:

NIFLA Panel Outline

NILFA v Becerra

Sorrell v IMS Health Inc

Reed v Town of Gilbert

RJ Reynolds Tobacco v. FDA

US v. Caronia

Amarin Pharm v. US FDA

Kozinski and Banner - Who's Afraid of Commercial Speech

Coleen Klasmeir and Martin Redish - Off-Label Prescription...

Robert Post Compelled Commerce

Jane Baumbauer Informational Libertarianism

2nd Session:

Jaszi Lecture

Jonathan Adler Compelled Commercial Speech

as_filed_ctia_petition.pdf

CTIA Wireless Ass_n v.  City of Berkely

CTIA Wireless Ass_n v. City of Berkeley 873F

CATO Amicus brief

Lessig Opposition brief

Lars Noah

Frederick Degnan The Food

Robert Post Compelled

Rebecca Tushnet COOL Story

AM Bev Ass_nv. City_Cty of San Francisco

Am.Bev.Ass_n v. City_Cty of San Francisco 916

Am. Meat Inst. v. United Sates Dept of Agr

Nat'l Assoc. of Manufacturs v. SEC

International Dairy Food Assoc. v. Amestoy

3rd Session:

Commercial Speech Material

Safier - Outline

Engle Comm Speech

Amicus Brief in Daniels v FanDuel

Amicus Brief in EA v Davis

APEC

Buzzfeed

Buzzfeed2

CBC Distrib Mktg v Major League Baseball Advance

Daniels v FanDuel 109 NE3d390

eSalon

goop

hairlavie

Joyus

JumpSport

Servoa v Sony Music Entertainment 26 Cal App 5th 759

shape

slimfast

Wash Post: 1st A right to publicity, video games and SCOTUS

GOLO LLS v HighYa

LLC

Daniels v FanDuel Inc