In 1998, a California-based consumer activist by the name of Mark Kasky filed a lawsuit against Nike. The issue was the company's PR reports and Op-Eds regarding manufacturing working conditions, which Kasky believed should be classified as “commercial speech” and subject to the same kinds of restrictions and potential liability as advertising. Nike v. Kasky made its way to the US Supreme Court in 2002, which declined to render a ruling, and was thus left in a kind of interpretative ...