United States Fifth Circuit

A refusal to promote private speech is not on a par with a regulation that prohibits or punishes speech, or which excludes a speaker from a public or nonpublic forum, so the Louisiana Supreme Court can regulate the legal practice of unlicensed law students in any manner it chooses.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/29/2001
• Published 05/29/2001

Judges

• GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:, Before GOODWIN,GARWOOD and JONES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David S. Udell (argued), Brennan Center for Justice, New York City, Mary E. Howell, Howell & Snead, Marjorie Ruth Esman, Massengale & Debruhl, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Vaughn C. Williams, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York City, for Louisiana Appleseed, Amicus Curiae., Daria Burgess Diaz, Osborne, McComiskey & Diaz, Metairie, LA, for Gloria Roberts, Amicus Curiae., Joel R. Waltzer, Waltzer & Associates, New Orleans, LA, for League of Women Voters of Louisiana, Amicus Curiae., Peter A. Joy, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, MO, Charles David Weisselberg, Center for Clinical Education, University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall), Berkeley, CA, Suzanne Jamie Levitt, Drake University School of Law, Des Moines, IA, for Association of American Law Schools, American Association of University Professors and Clinical Legal Education Association, Amici Curiae., James M. Klebba, New Orleans, LA, pro se., Edward F. Sherman, New Orleans, LA, pro se., Lawrence S. Lustberg, Jessica A. Roth, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolon, Griffinger & Vecchione, Newark, NJ, for American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana, Amicus Curiae., Theodore Mark Cooperstein, Daniel J. Popeo, Washington, DC, for Washington Legal Foundation and Economic Freedom Law Clinic, Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael H. Rubin (argued), Ashley Byrd Lowe, McGlinchey Stafford, Christina Berthelot Peck, Roedel, Parsons, Koch, Frost, Balhoff & McCollister, Baton Rouge, LA, Thomas Roberts, Stephanie M. Sisson, McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, LA, Donald Ray Cravins, Jr., Domengeaux, Wright, Roy & Edwards, Lafayette, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.