Now this lawsuit against Google is just stupid!
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It's wasting other people's time and money to sue a company for a device that didn't affect safety or any monetary damages. 2 year warranty and the phone barely came out every single handset is still under returnable period.
cbreze
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If you're saying it was a First Amendment thing than it had been out of whack for at least 200 years prior. As I recall I don't think doctors could advertise either. Maybe they should let judges advertise. See where that gets us.
Too many people are swayed by slick attorney advertisements. Ambulance Chasers come out of the woodwork. Someone who needs an attorney should hunt them out not the other way around.
The government has never prohibited advertising by individuals or businesses in private sector media.
"Someone who needs an attorney..." Gee, how is someone who doesn't know the law and/or all of their legal rights supposed to know exactly when they need or could benefit from legal counsel?
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This what I was referring to:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_advertising_in_the_United_States
And Gee, when I last needed an attorney I called him up and made an appointment. I didn't check out the adds on TV to see what deals were going on or special sales on legal advice. It used to be considered unethical by the ABA for an attorney to advertise. The last thing an attorney wants to be seen as is unethical. In 1977 Supreme Court changed that and the ABA relaxed their ethics on the matter.
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The government banned TV and radio advertising for cigarettes in 1971. In 1986 they banned smokeless tobacco. In 1997 they banned outdoor, billboard and public transportation tobacco ads. And in 2010, they banned tobacco companies from sponsoring sporting and music events, and also from companies displaying their logos on shirts, hats, and other apparel.
The ban on liquor advertising might've seemed like a government ban, but it was actually self-imposed by the alcohol companies.
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Doctors can advertise, according to law, but the medical association's code of ethics state that it is prohibited to solicit patients. This is interpreted to include advertising. And since it's an ethical issue, advertising can get the doctor kicked out of the local medical association (which also hinders him getting accepted in another due to this record). This is a big blow to doctors because losing privelages to the association can lose him hospital rights/access and other things.
So a doctor can advertise, it won't be illegal and he won't go to jail for it. Other doctors just won't want to work with him anymore so they'll kick him off their hospital and not refer patients to him even if the case is under his specialization. There's no law saying you can't get kicked out of an organization because you violated said organizations rules.
In other words lawyers as a group are unethical sharks waiting for every money making opportunity. Lol.
Yes, and it was the Bar Association, not the government, that was unlawfully restrained trade in restricting speech.
1971 restricted only access to the airways owned by the public - there is no 1st Amd right to the public airways. 1997 was a voluntary consent agreement, not government law. More generally, including 2009 which still stands, government asserts & courts agree tobacco merits a 'compelling government interest' in speech regulation.
[With that, in deference to our moderator I'll say no more on this diversion. My apologies.]
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