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Silencing Corporate Speakers: The California Supreme Court's Broad New Definition of Commercial Speech Goes Unchecked

I. INTRODUCTION

Society places a high value on the freedom of speech1 and the U.S. Supreme Court has developed a jurisprudence that is highly protective of the freedom of speech.2 Yet not all speech is entitled to equal treatment under the Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court has carved out entirely unprotected categories of speech and extended only lesser protection to other categories.3 The result is a rough hierarchy in which "[c]ore political speech occupies the highest, most protected position; commercial speech and non obscene, sexually explicit speech . .. [are in the middle] ... as sort of second-class expression; [and] obscenity and fighting words receive the least protection of ...

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