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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Communications Law |
| Title: | LORILLARD TOBACCO CO. v. REILLY |
| Date: | 06/28/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-596 |
| Summary: | The Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, 15 USC 1333, preempts state regulation of advertising or promotion of cigarettes, including regulations governing outdoor and point-of-sale advertising of cigarettes, but not regulation of actual sales or use of cigarettes. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Communications Law, Constitutional Law |
| Title: | BARTNICKI v. VOPPER |
| Date: | 05/21/01 |
| Case Number: | 99-1687 |
| Summary: | Where journalists played no part in the unlawful interception of private communications and the substance of the communications regarded a matter of public interest, the First Amendment protects the disclosure of the communications even where journalists knew that the communications were intercepted unlawfully. |