Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1998

Keywords

commercial speech, First Amendment, advertise, public employee, censorship, freedom of speech, equal protection, due process, Fourteenth Amendment

Abstract

This examination looks at Virginia's ban on speech advertising motorcycles and revisits the question raised in the Posadas decision - may a state ban speech about a legal product the state could ban if it so desired. This article uses comparisons to the government employee speech cases to further illuminate the issue.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings

Equality before the law--United States, Equality before the law, Due process of law, Advertising, Freedom of speech, Constitution. 1st Amendment, Constitution. 14th Amendment, Censorship, Civil service

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