Legal Opinion
Shapero v. Kentucky Bar Assn.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 13, 1988No. 87-16PublishedCited by 227 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Brennan
This case presents the issue whether a State may, consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, categorically prohibit lawyers from soliciting legal business for pecuniary gain by sending truthful and nondeceptive letters to potential clients known to face particular legal problems.
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In 1985, petitioner, a member of Kentucky’s integrated Bar Association, see Ky. Sup. Ct. Rule 3.030 (1988), applied to the Kentucky Attorneys Advertising Commission1 for approval of a letter that he proposed to send “to potential clients who have had a foreclosure suit filed against them.” The proposed…
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