SAN FRANCISCO — Theodore Olson and Lawrence Lessig, two legal giants from opposite ends of the political spectrum, clashed Thursday afternoon over a Berkeley law requiring retailers to warn customers against keeping cellphones too close to their bodies.
Olson, the former U.S. solicitor general under President George W. Bush and current Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner, argued on behalf of CTIA—The Wireless Association, an industry trade group seeking an injunction blocking the Berkeley ordinance. Olson told U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of the Northern District of California that the law passed in May forces retailers to make “controversial” and “misleading” statements about the safety of their products and the amount of radiation they emit.
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