Indeed, it is in free speech cases that public interest firms of the left and the right are most likely to unite.
The Supreme Court has decided several political speech cases in recent years.
But several scholars noted that the Supreme Court's commercial speech cases as a whole are not entirely coherent.
But in most of the recent commercial speech cases, the government was curbing advertising in an effort to prevent physical harm.
The Court has agreed to hear a trio of significant free speech cases and could be closely divided in at least two.
Most of the free speech cases decided by the courts over the decades have involved fringe groups and actions that threatened no one.
Mr. Thompson said in an interview it was "a very important free speech case."
For example, Citizens United, although controversial for other reasons, was a free speech case.
However, their use of "free speech cases involving shopping centers" as an analogy is faulty.
In fact, this is one of the most important free speech cases in decades.