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Corpwatch.org/SF Chronicle: USA: Bush Top Gun vs. S.F. Activist
Solicitor General Asks High Court to Toss Anti-Nike Suit
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration's top Supreme Court lawyer urged the high court Wednesday to toss out a San Francisco consumer activist's suit against Nike Inc. because it could discourage corporations from defending themselves in public against their critics.
Solicitor General Theodore Olson argued Wednesday that the court must quash the lawsuit or citizens seeking to "advance their own agendas" would repeatedly haul corporations into court to challenge their views.
"Anyone with a whim, a grievance and a filing fee can become a government- licensed censor," Olson told the justices.
Marc Kasky sued Nike in 1998 under the state's false advertising laws, accusing the world's largest shoemaker of making false and misleading public statements about its treatment of hundreds of thousands of workers at Asian factories that produce shoes and sportswear with the company's "swoosh" logo.

"Würde Bush auch seinen Staatsanwalt lossenden wenn Nike nicht so viel Geld an seinen Wahlkampf gespendet hätte? that's Democracy"