Apr
26
Ad Trade Groups Unusually Quiet on Proposal to Mandate Language in Lawyers' Advertising
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Advertising trade associations routinely fight new government restrictions on ads for tobacco, food, drugs and consumer finance, all on First Amendment grounds. Just on Monday, the Association of National Advertisers said it had filed a court brief opposing a Berkeley, Calif., ordinance requiring retailers to warn consumers about cellphone radiation.
But on one recent call for restrictions, the ANA and the American Advertising Federation are silent.
That’s the proposal last month by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R.-Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to make attorneys’ ads seeking plaintiffs for lawsuits over allegedly dangerous drugs also caution consumers to keep taking the drugs anyway, at least until they talk to their doctors.
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