Kleinsmith v. Shurtleff

HARTZ, Circuit Judge.

Philip M. Kleinsmith resides in Colorado but is licensed to practice law in Utah. A specialist in nonjudicial foreclosures, he challenges the constitutionality of a Utah statute that requires all attorneys who act as trustees of real-property trust deeds in Utah to “maintain[] a place within the state” to meet with trustors for certain enumerated purposes related to foreclosures. Utah Code Ann. § 57 — 1—21(l)(a)(i) (2009). Mr. Kleinsmith, who has no Utah office, challenges the law on the grounds that the maintain-a-place requirement (1) is so vague that the statute…