Legal Opinion
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company v. Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 20, 2002No. 00-11025PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENNIS, Circuit Judge:
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company (“Nationwide”) sued Texas’s Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee (the “UPLC”) in federal district court. Nationwide sought a declaration that Texas law does not prohibit it from employing salaried staff attorneys to represent its insureds in policy-related cases. Nationwide also sought a declaration that the Texas State Bar Act, as interpreted by the UPLC, violates the federal constitution. Because it found the State Bar Act’s unauthorized practice of law provisions to be sufficiently unclear, the district court abstained from…
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