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Re: Responses to "Spam costs and questions" (long)
On Sun, Jun 08, 1997 at 07:51:37AM -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>In <[email protected]>, on 06/08/97
> at 07:36 AM, Declan McCullagh <[email protected]> said:
>
>>I don't think commercial speech should be treated as second-class speech.
>>But my position is hardly surprising.
>
>Well I think that there are some that would confuse the issue between 1st
>Amendment free speech and the issues surrounding fraud. Especially those
>in government who write the laws that regulate commercial speech.
>
The prospectus is a legal document -- part of the contract between the
mutual fund and the customer.
So, the question is, should there be any legal constraints on the
"speech" in contracts? Can I sign a contract, and later be able to
say "Oh, *that* clause! That was just a *joke*"?
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