Public Health Trumps Corporate Speech
By David Orentlicher [Ed Note: Cross-posted at HealthLawProfBlog.] Reversing its previous deference to corporate speech interests, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit came down in favor of consumer protection in a July 29 decision. In American Meat Institute v. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, the court upheld a federal government regulation requiring meat companies to…