AP Nike would like to say it doesn't  IN THE next few days the
Supreme Court will decide whether to review the case of Nike v
Kasky. America's top judges reject 99% of the briefs that thud
into their in-tray, but can they dare to ignore this one? At
stake is the basic principle of the first amendment to the
American constitution: free speech. To what extent should
companies have the same rights as individuals when they make
public statements? Specifically, are their public
pronouncements—in debates, on websites, or in published letters
or articles—normal speech, or are they advertising that could
expose them to million-dollar lawsuits?  More than 40 bodies,
from Microsoft, Pfizer and the US Chamber of Commerce, to CNN,
Bloomberg and the New York Times, have joined Nike in pressing
the Supreme Court to take the case. They hope it will overturn a
Californian judgment.  The original suit was brought by an anti-
corporate activist named Marc Kasky. His private action claimed
that Nike had violated California's unf