United States Second Circuit
Hayes v. State of New York Attorney Grievance Committee, 10-1587
In a challenge to a New York regulation requiring a prescribed disclaimer statement to be made by attorneys who state that they are certified as a specialist in a particular area of the law, the district court's judgment against the plaintiff is reversed, where: 1) enforcement of two components of the required disclaimer statement would violate the First Amendment; and 2) the absence of standards guiding administrators of the regulation rendered it unconstitutionally vague as applied to the plaintiff.
Appellate Information
- Decided 03/05/2012
- Published 03/05/2012
Judges
- Jon O. Newman
Court
- United States Second Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- J. Michael Hayes, Simon Heller