Legal Opinion
Washington Legal Foundation v. Massachusetts Bar Foundation
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 20, 1993No. 92-1775PublishedCited by 280 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves a challenge to the Massachusetts Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (“IOLTA”) program. The district court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ claims that the IOLTA program violated their First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and association, and effected a taking of their property in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, 795 F.Supp. 50 (1992). We affirm.
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BACKGROUND
Traditionally, in Massachusetts and in other states, clients’ funds which lawyers held for a short term or in nominal amounts were deposited…
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