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VELAZQUEZ v. LEGAL SERVICES CORP.

No. 2020, Docket 98-6006.

164 F.3d 757 (1999)

Carmen VELAZQUEZ, et al, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 7, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burt Neuborne, New York, N.Y. (Deborah Goldberg, E. Joshua Rosenkranz and David S. Udell, The Brennan Center for Justice, New York, N.Y.; Peter M. Fishbein and Alan Rothman, Kaye Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, LLP, New York, N.Y., On the Brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Alan Levine, Kronish, Lieb, Weiner & Hellman, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Stephen A. Wieder, Stephen L. Ascher, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellee.

Stephen W. Preston, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Washington, D.C. (Frank W. Hunger, Assistant Attorney General, Washington, D.C., Zachary W. Carter, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, N.Y., Barbara L. Herwig and Matthew M. Collette, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Intervenor-Appellee.

Before: JACOBS, LEVAL, and GIBSON, Circuit Judges.

Judge JACOBS concurs in part and dissents in part in a separate opinion.

LEVAL, Circuit Judge:

This appeal concerns the validity of restrictions imposed by Congress and the Legal Services Corporation ("LSC") on the professional activities of entities that receive funding from LSC ("LSC grantees"). Plaintiffs are lawyers employed by New York City LSC grantees, their indigent clients, private contributors to LSC grantees, and state and local public officials...

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