“The First Amendment of the United States Constitution, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, ‘protects commercial speech from unwarranted governmental regulation,’” appellant counsel briefed. ”Attorney advertising is commercial speech and is therefore ’accorded a measure of First Amendment protection.’”
“If, at the time that this came into the Georgia Constitution in 1861, commercial speech is not considered to be covered by freedom of speech, then the Georgia Constitution following all those principles of constitutional interpretation, does not cover lawyer advertising,” Terry argued Tuesday.
