It’s true, and it’s so wrong.  As U.S. laws are written, employers can fire or demote you for any number of reasons, as long as they don’t offend federal or state statutes.  These include statutes that protect employees from discrimination based on race,...

The year of 2001 probably was not Nike, Inc., finest moments given that misleading statements that it made to the press and to the public about its operations in Southeast Asia labor activist opened a whole can of worms about whether the First Amendment applies to corporations making false or misleading statements.
After the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the decision, numerous business interests aligned with Nike’s appeal. Twenty-eight organizations and the U.S. government filed briefs as “friends of the court” to argue that Nike’s statements should be fully protected by the First Amendment.