Legal Opinion
Castrol Inc. v. Pennzoil Company and Pennzoil Products Company
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 3, 1993No. 92-5353PublishedCited by 242 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROSENN, Circuit Judge.
The primary issue raised by this appeal is whether one of this nation’s major oil companies engaged in deceptive advertising in violation of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a) (1988). The parties to this appeal further call upon this court to interpret the degree to which commercial speech is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Commercial advertising plays a dynamic role in the complex financial and industrial activities of our society, leading author Norman Douglas to go so far as to observe that “[y]ou can tell the…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Friedman v. RogersSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by242 opinions
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- Lipton v. Nature Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1995
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