Legal Opinion
ANN VENEMAN, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture,NATIONAL DAIRY PROMOTION BOARD
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 24, 2004No. 03-2522PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.
The American public is very familiar with the “Got Milk? ®” ads on television and in the print media.
This appeal requires us to decide whether a federal statute may compel a small dairy farm in Pennsylvania to help pay for the white-mustache milk advertisements and other dairy promotions. Implicated here are general First Amendment precepts that protect the right to refrain from speaking and the right to refrain from association, and the specific issue of whether the government may compel individuals to fund speech with which they disagree.
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2Cases cited22 opinions
- Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Rosenberger v. Rector & Visitors of University of VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Rust v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Wooley v. MaynardSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Cochran v. VenemanCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2004