Legal Opinion
Falanga v. State Bar of Georgia
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 19, 1998No. 96-8972, 96-9491, 97-8062PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HATCHETT, Chief Judge:
The principal issue in this ease is whether Georgia’s prohibiting lawyers and their agents from soliciting professional employment from potential clients face-to-face and without invitation survives First Amendment commercial speech scrutiny as applied to ap-pellees/cross-appellants. We conclude that it does, affirming in part and reversing in part the judgment of the district court.
I. BACKGROUND
Appellees/cross-appellants Robert Falanga and Ronald Chalker, who are licensed to practice law in and members of the State Bar of Georgia, primarily represent plaintiffs pursuing…
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