Tagged: First Amendment

More limits on tobacco advertising.

April 3, 2012 at 7:41 am

The government sure likes to keep tobacco lawyers busy. In yet another case involving the industry, a court recently ruled that the city of Worcester’s limit on tobacco advertising in windows is unconstitutional. The city had made it illegal for a store to display cigarette ads that show brand names in a store window. As […]

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You’re Hired…As long as you give me access to your Facebook account.

March 30, 2012 at 1:58 pm

Long ago, just calling three references was enough for an employer to make sure that you are a normal (enough) person to hire. Now, as we live our lives online through social media, employers are increasingly monitoring Facebook and other social media outlets in order to keep their employees under watch. First we began reading […]

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Over the line?

March 1, 2012 at 2:11 pm

In a great example of how First Amendment law impacts businesses, a federal court in Virginia ruled that the government’s new requirement that cigarette packages contain graphic images related to the harms that cigarettes cause is unconstitutional.  As explained here, the Court found that the images were not intended to provide information, but rather to […]

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