The law, their brief said, "prohibits a new class of speech, so lacking in value, that it should not receive First Amendment protection".
For some, it is evidence of the growth of consumerism in healthcare, while others (particularly doctors) dismiss patient stories as uninformed and lacking in value.
Perhaps the best possible grounds are that irreversible loss of consciousness entails an existence lacking in value for the unconscious individual herself.
These are the records people fall in love to night after night round the country, and to pretend that they're lacking in value is to pretend that shared experiences are worthless.
At £25 a head, it wasn't exactly priced to sell, but what it lacked in value it more than made up for in a lack of queues, friendly and efficient service, and taxidermied calves with two heads.
And some outfits are both lacking in commercial value and valued by the public.
Bob Hill did not know what to expect when he signed as coach of the Fordham men's basketball team last season, but he did not like what he found: a team lacking in principles, values and discipline.
Many of us complain about lives lacking in traditional values, and long for a return to demonstrable community spirit, but few of us would feel safe offering any stranger a lift on a rainy night.
Though the event had been promoted as a Madonna/Kabala party, and we had after all been invited, Ms. Spiegel told us in a manner we felt markedly lacking in spiritual values that there was no way we could talk with Madonna.
Moynihan, a former New York Senator and Assistant Secretary of Labor, famously pathologized black America as lacking in family values.
