Legal Opinion
Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 26, 2003No. 01-1325PublishedCited by 291 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
The State of Washington, like every other State in the Union, uses interest on lawyers’ trust accounts (IOLTA) to pay for legal services provided to the needy. Some IOLTA programs were created by statute, but in Washington, as in most other States, the IOLTA program was established by the State Supreme Court pursuant to its authority to regulate the practice of law. In Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation, 524 U. S. 156 (1998), a case involving the Texas IOLTA program, we held “that the interest income generated by funds held in IOLTA accounts is the ‘private property’ of the owner of the…
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