Constitutional Law
May 31, 2002
Institutional Advertising Must Be Factually Accurate
Focus Column - By Charles S. Doskow - A California Court of Appeal held, in an opinion in 2000, that truth was irrelevant to the decision in a lawsuit in which the prime allegation was untruth. Commentators found that to be, or at least to resemble, a glaring anomaly. The California Supreme Court now has found the anomaly to be an unacceptable one, at least in the area of athletic shoes, Asian manufacture and corporate self-defense.
Charles S. Doskow
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law
University of La Verne College of Law
Email: dosklaw@aol.com
Harvard Law School
Charles is a past president of the Inland Empire Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and in 2012 was awarded the chapter's Erwin Chemerinsky Defender of the Constitution award.
By Charles S. Doskow
A California Court of Appeal held, in an opinion in 2000, that truth was irrelevant to the decision in a lawsuit in which the prime allegation was untruth. Commentator...
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