Physician Advertising: The First Amendment and the Sherman Act

Physician advertising: the first amendment and the Sherman Act.

In Bates v. State Bar of Arizona,' the Supreme Court held that a state's prohibition of advertising by attorneys was unconstitutional as applied to a newspaper advertisement setting forth fees for certain routine legal services. Bates is necessarily the foundation upon which one must base any judgment regarding the legality of restraints upon physicians' advertising. Restraints on advertising p...

Anticompetitive data dissemination in the medical profession: the conflict between the Sherman act and the First Amendment.

The antitrust prohibitions of the Sherman Act' in many ways have a "unique relationship ' 2 with the free speech guarantees of the first amendment. 3 By protecting the free flow of information between buyers and sellers, 4 the Sherman Act protects first amendment rights to disseminate and receive information. 5 By defining competition as the goal of its prohibitions, 6 the Sherman Act, like the...

Accrediting and the Sherman Act.

the speech act of advice and the introvert/extrovert distinction among iranian efl university students

the aim of this study is to examine the difference between the introverts and extroverts in preferred advice-giving style. furthermore, it explores the difference between l1 (persian) and l2 (english) regarding the giving of advice for the extroverts and introverts separately. it investigates whether an extrovert or introvert gives advice in the same manner in his l1 (persian) and l2 (english) ...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...