On Sun, Jun 08, 1997 at 07:51:37AM -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
In <Pine.GSO.3.95.970608053415.20770A-100000@well.com>, on 06/08/97 at 07:36 AM, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> said:
I don't think commercial speech should be treated as second-class speech. But my position is hardly surprising.
Well I think that there are some that would confuse the issue between 1st Amendment free speech and the issues surrounding fraud. Especially those in government who write the laws that regulate commercial speech.
The prospectus is a legal document -- part of the contract between the mutual fund and the customer. So, the question is, should there be any legal constraints on the "speech" in contracts? Can I sign a contract, and later be able to say "Oh, *that* clause! That was just a *joke*"? -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html