FICKER v. CURRAN

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Robert Anthony Zarnoch, Assistant Attorney General, Annapolis, MD, for Appellant. Alan Edward D'Appolito, Upper Marlboro, MD, for Appellees. Charles Haven Wilson, American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capitol Area, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae. ON BRIEF: J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Annapolis, MD; Margaret Witherup Tindall, Staff Attorney, Baltimore, MD, for Appellant. Robin K.A. Ficker, Bethesda, MD, for Appellees. Arthur B. Spitzer, Stephen M. Block, American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capitol Area, Washington, DC; Dwight H. Sullivan, American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, for Amici Curiae ACLU, et al. Michael F. Easley, North Carolina Attorney General, Edwin M. Speas, Jr., Senior Deputy Attorney General, Norma S. Harrell, Special Deputy Attorney General, Thomas F. Moffitt, Special Deputy Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, NC, for Appellee State Bar. M. Albert Figinski, Weinberg & Green, L.L.C., Baltimore, MD, for Amicus Curiae Maryland Defense Attorneys. Seth R. Cohen, Smith, Follin & James, L.L.P., Greensboro, NC, for Amici Curiae Sawyer, et al.

Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, MICHAEL, Circuit Judge, and MICHAEL, Senior United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.