In the case of Standard Stock Food Company v. Wright, State Food and Dairy Commissioner of Iowa in 1911, the Supreme Court was asked to determine whether a state law that prohibited false advertising on product labels violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. The plaintiff, Standard Stock Food Company, argued that their product label claiming it could increase milk production by fifty percent was not misleading because it did not specify what this percentage increase would be compared to. However, the court ruled against them stating that such an advertisement could easily mislead consumers into believing they would see a significant improvement in their livestock's productivity if they used this feed supplement. Therefore, Iowa’s law prohibiting false advertisements did not violate due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment as businesses do not have an inherent right to deceive customers.

In the dissenting opinion for Standard Stock Food Company v. Wright, it was argued that the state of Iowa had overstepped its bounds in regulating interstate commerce by prohibiting the sale of a product manufactured and packaged in another state. The justice contended that while states have a right to protect their citizens from fraud or harm, this power should not extend to dictating what products can be sold within their borders if they are legally produced and marketed elsewhere. This view held that such actions infringe upon federal jurisdiction over interstate trade as outlined in the Commerce Clause of the U.S Constitution. Furthermore, it was suggested that allowing individual states to impose such restrictions could lead to an untenable patchwork of differing regulations across different jurisdictions which would impede free trade among states.