Genevieve Lakier: Virginia Bar Owners Likely to Prevail in Suit Challenging Laws Restricting Advertising About Alcohol
Chef sues over Virginia’s happy hour laws
Genevieve Lakier, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School who studies First Amendment issues, said Tracy will probably prevail.
“Courts generally frown on laws that attempt to deprive consumers of information,” she said. “I don’t know what Virginia was thinking here, but I don’t see how the law can be upheld.”
She pointed out that it was a Virginia case involving pharmaceutical prices that led the Supreme Court in 1976 to rule that corporate speech is protected under the First Amendment.
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