In Sorrell V

In Sorrell v.IMS Health Inc.,the Supreme Court reviewed a state law prohibiting the sale of doctors' prescription records (tracking consumer trends)to marketing and data-mining firms.The Court agreed that the regulation targeted economic activity and infringed on commercial speech.The majority applied strict scrutiny to strike down the regulation as an unconstitutional content-based and viewpoint based regulation.Discuss the reasoning of the dissent to explain why this ruling is significant and how it changes the commercial speech doctrine.