A federal appeals court found that a infomercial pitchman violated the terms of a 2004 Federal Trade Commission settlement over his ads, upholding a $37.6 million judgment.
The court wrote that the government must protect consumers and could do so by imposing narrow restrictions on commercial speech without running afoul of the First Amendment. -db
From Reuters, November 29, 2011, by Jonathan Stempel and Terry Baynes.