United States Fifth Circuit

In a challenge brought by two bail bondsmen to a Texas statute restricting solicitation of potential customers as a denial of their First Amendment rights, summary judgment in favor of the bondsmen holding the statute unconstitutional and enjoining its enforcement is affirmed in part and reversed in part where all but one of the restrictions at issue violate the bondsmen's right to commercial speech.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/07/2007
• Published 06/08/2007

Judges

• PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, WIENER, and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David Allen Furlow (argued), Thompson & Knight, Stacy Lynn Kelly, MacIntyre & McCulloch, Houston, TX, for Pruett and Martin., Bruce S. Powers, Asst. Cty. Atty. (argued), George Andrew Nachtigall, Houston, TX, for Harris Cty. Bail Bond Bd. and Harris Cty.