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Legal Citation: 447 U.S. 557 (1980)

Appellant
Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corp.

Appellee
Public Service Commission of New York

Appellant's Claim
That a regulation by the New York Public Service Commission, banning the use of promotional advertising by the electrical utility Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corp., was a restraint of commercial speech under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

Chief Lawyer for the Appellant
Telford Taylor

Chief Lawyer for the Appellee
Peter H. Schiff

Justices for the Court
Harry A. Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Jr., Warren E. Burger, Thurgood Marshall, Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (writing for the Court), John Paul Stevens, Potter Stewart, Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting
William H. Rehnquist

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
20 June...