To Label Or Not To Label? Companies May Have No Choice

Law360, New York (September 30, 2014, 10:32 AM EDT) -- Most everyone knows that the First Amendment restricts the government's ability to limit commercial speech. Similarly, most everyone would probably think the First Amendment also restricts the government's ability to compel commercial speech. But, are there times when the government may compel commercial speech? Indeed it can in some circumstances, and the D.C. Circuit recently expanded those circumstances in American Meat Institute v. U.S. Department of Agriculture.[1] AMI involved a trade association's challenge to regulations requiring meat producers to include country-of-origin labels on their products. This decision is important to almost any company that is, or could be, subject to a regulatory mandate to disclose what the court calls "purely factual and uncontroversial information."...

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