Compelling Speech Isn’t Necessarily Compelling Speech
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When was the last time you were at the grocery store and “Got Milk”
convinced you that you just had to have another gallon of the white
liquid so full of calcium?
Or when was the last time you put that chicken back because you
remembered “Beef: It’s what’s for dinner?”
Yeah, me neither. So it causes me to wonder if such compelled speech
is really compelling.
We may soon have an answer. The marketing campaign by the Beef Board
is under scrutiny by the United States Supreme Court as being
inpermissible compelled speech. Two cases, Veneman v. Livestock
Marketing Association, No. 03-1164, and Nebraska Cattlemen Inc. v.
Livestock Marketing Association, No. 03-1165, have been consolidated
and arguments will be heard tomorrow.
[Compelling Speech Isn't Necessarily Compelling Speech, continued] [Mickey Chandler]