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      "id": 105397,
      "date": "2002-03-21",
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      "title": "Prohibiting Television Advertising of Alcoholic Beverages: A Constitutional Analysis",
      "summary": "Federal law does not prohibit radio or television advertising of alcoholic beverages. However,\nstarting in 1936 for radio and 1948 for television, the industry voluntarily refrained from advertising\nhard liquor on radio or television. In December, 2001, NBC announced that it would air liquor\nadvertisements, but in March 2002, it reversed its policy.\n  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has struck down a law that banned\n\"indecent\" speech on broadcast radio and television 24 hours a day, but has upheld the current law,\nwhich imposes the ban from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. This suggests that a comparable ban on liquor ads\nwould be constitutional. A 24-hour ban might too, however, because advertising is entitled to less\nprotection under the First Amendment than \"indecent\" speech. Yet the Supreme Court's trend in\nrecent years of striking down governmental restrictions on commercial speech suggests that the\nconstitutionality of a 24-hour ban would hardly be certain.",
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