Legal Opinion
Washington Legal Foundation v. Legal Foundation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 14, 2001No. 98-35154PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:
Four individuals, Allen Brown, Greg Hayes, Dennis Daugs, and Dian Maxwell, and the Washington Legal Foundation (collectively “Appellants”) challenge the legality of Washington State’s Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Account (“IOLTA”) program on First and Fifth Amendment grounds. Beginning where the Supreme Court left off in Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation, 524 U.S. 156, 160, 118 S.Ct. 1925, 141 L.Ed.2d 174 (1998), Appellants contend that the Washington State IOLTA program unconstitutionally takes the interest generated by their monies placed in IOLTA trust accounts…
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