Family Division Trial Lawyers of the Superior court-d.c., Inc. v. H. Carl Moultrie, Chief Judge, D.C. Superior Court

WALD, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from the district court’s grant of summary judgment for the defendant-appellees on the basis that the appellants failed to state a valid constitutional claim of involuntary servitude, a “taking” of property, or a denial of equal protection.1 The appellants — three individual attorneys who regularly request assignment of cases in the Family Division of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for which the District pays attorney fees and an association of lawyers who practice before the Family Division — challenged the practices by which the superior…