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Supreme Court Strikes Down CSC Ban on Welfare Suits

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Attorneys, Appointment of Counsel, Attorney Client, Public Defenders. Location: New York.

The Court strikes down a statute forbidding Legal Services lawyers to
challenge the constitutionality of welfare statutes, and in doing so
characterizes litigation as speech and applies the usual First Amendment
analysis to this content-based restriction. (Interestingly, the Court
ignores precedent holding that litigation is an exercise of the First
…

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