According to the WSJ, Nike will pay $1.5 million to a worker's rights group to settle the lawsuit brought against it in California for lying about the working conditionsof its overseas plants in “fact sheets”. Nike had tried to get the case thrown out by the US Supreme Court, claiming that the California law the suit was based on violated its rights to free speech–that lying was free speech, and could not be constrained. Another reason for a revisiting of the interpretation of Southern Pacific Railroad vs. Santa Clara County.