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PUBLIC CITIZEN v. LOUISIANA ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY

No. 09-30925.

632 F.3d 212 (2011)

PUBLIC CITIZEN, INC.; William N. Gee, III; William N. Gee, III, Ltd.; Morris Bart; Morris Bart, L.L.C., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LOUISIANA ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD; Billy R. Pesnell, in his official capacity as Chair of the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board; Charles B. Plattsmier, in his official capacity as Chief Disciplinary Counsel for the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board's Office of Disciplinary Counsel, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 31, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory Andrew Beck (argued), Public Citizen Lit. Group, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Dane S. Ciolino , Dane S. Ciolino, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Public Citizen, Inc., Gee, III and William N. Gee, III, Ltd.

James M. Garner , Christopher T. Chocheles , Joshua Simon Force , Sher, Garner, Cahill, Richter, Klein & Hilbert, L.L.C., Terry B. Loup , Morris Bart , New Orleans, LA, for Bart and Morris Bart, L.L.C.

Barry W. Ashe (argued), Matthew Steven Almon , Kathryn Marie Knight , Phillip A. Wittmann , Stone, Pigman, Walther & Wittmann, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, CLEMENT and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:

Before the court is a First Amendment challenge to rules governing attorney advertising in Louisiana. Various Louisiana attorneys and law firms, as well as a national nonprofit organization with Louisiana members, filed suit against the Louisiana Attorney Discipline Board (LADB), a body tasked with investigating lawyer misconduct and making discipline recommendations to the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and two LADB officers. The...

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