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Advertising | FIRST AMENDMENT

Wiley Rein attorneys have played a leading role in a number of cases challenging the power of the government to regulate the content or placement of ads. The firm has filed amicus briefs on behalf of the American Advertising Federation, the American Association of Advertising Agencies and other media groups in prominent U.S. Supreme Court cases defending the protection of commercial speech. 

The group's experience includes:

  • Filed a series of substantial comments to the FDA on a broad collection of commercial speech issues, including a comprehensive legal analysis of the First Amendment implications of all phases of the FDA's drug regulatory scheme and a First Amendment critique of the FDA's recent efforts to revise its regulatory policies on "direct-to-consumer" print advertising.
  • Successfully represented Google Inc. in copyright infringement lawsuit filed by French news agency, Agence France-Presse.  Firm attorneys reach a confidential settlement that allowed Google to continue to use the agency's news and photos.
  • Successfully defended the interests of medical journal publishers to select and edit scientific articles without regard to source, in the first case to address false advertising claims under California law following the Supreme Court's landmark Nike case.
  • Successfully defending a major tobacco product manufacturer's commercial speech rights against state regulations that effectively banned point-of-purchase product advertising. (Lorillard v. Reilly, 533 U.S. 525 (2001)).

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Hugh Latimer
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