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PR Campaigns Lose Speech Protection by Decius at 1:30 pm EDT, May 4, 2002
"Ann Brick of the ACLU, which filed an amicus brief in the case on Nike's behalf, said the majority's analysis was "very disappointing." "It essentially shuts business speakers out of the public debate on any issue that directly affects them. That kind of analysis is absolutely antithetical to the basic First Amendment principle that we let the people, not the government, decide who's right and who's wrong on an issue of public dispute." Kasky v. Nike Inc., 02 C.D.O.S. 3790, began when Marc Kasky filed a private attorney general action claiming that Nike violated California laws prohibiting unlawful business practices and false advertising by issuing press statements refuting claims that workers in Nike's Southeast Asian factories toiled in slave-like conditions. Kasky said those statements were deliberately deceptive. "
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PR Campaigns Lose Speech Protection
by Reknamorken at 9:46 pm EDT, May 4, 2002

"Ann Brick of the ACLU, which filed an amicus brief in the case on Nike's behalf, said the majority's analysis was "very disappointing."
"It essentially shuts business speakers out of the public debate on any issue that directly affects them. That kind of analysis is absolutely antithetical to the basic First Amendment principle that we let the people, not the government, decide who's right and who's wrong on an issue of public dispute."

Kasky v. Nike Inc., 02 C.D.O.S. 3790, began when Marc Kasky filed a private attorney general action claiming that Nike violated California laws prohibiting unlawful business practices and false advertising by issuing press statements refuting claims that workers in Nike's Southeast Asian factories toiled in slave-like conditions. Kasky said those statements were deliberately deceptive. "

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