Washington Legal Foundation v. Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiffs-appellants appeal the district court’s denial of their motion for summary judgment and the court’s award of summary judgment to the defendants-appellees, in which the district court upheld the constitutionality of the Texas statute, Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts Program (IOLTA), and found that the defendants are entitled to limited immunity under the Eleventh Amendment. For the reasons that follow, we REVERSE the judgment of the district court in part, VACATE and remand in part, and AFFIRM in part.

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