Legal Opinion
Public Citizen, Inc. v. Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 31, 2011No. 09-30925PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH BROWN CLEMENT,
Circuit Judge:
Before the court is a First Amendment challenge to rules governing attorney advertising in Louisiana. Various Louisiana attorneys and law firms, as well as a national nonprofit organization with Louisiana members, filed suit against the Louisiana Attorney Discipline Board (LADB), a body tasked with investigating lawyer misconduct and making discipline recommendations to the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and two LADB officers. The plaintiffs argued that certain Louisiana Rules of Professional Conduct unconstitutionally infringe on the commercial speech of…
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