POL 374 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Commercial Speech, Crush Fetish, Strict Scrutiny

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 374
• Professor: Sylvia Thompson

Document Summary

Could have been selling videos about anything. Court is demanding in terms of when government can legislate and punish that. Prove that they have compelling government interest in proving it and law is narrowly. Animal cruelty, were really trying to stop the dissemination of one particular depiction of animal cruelty crush videos. Sold videos to an undercover officers, of dogs fighting and dogs killing a pig. Three years in prison and three years on probation. Convicted in us district court because us federal law. Appealed to us court of appeals and won on a constitutional argument. Us government that is petition us supreme court to get them to reinstate conviction. Decided to sell something that has depictions of animal cruelty tailored about that content. Strict scrutiny standard, assumption that governments actions were iunconstitutional. No more limited way to stop this, people dont show their faces in these videos. Discrimination, being punished for his beliefs and expression.