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LEGAL AID SOC. OF HAWAII v. LEGAL SERVICES CORP.

No. 97-16567.

145 F.3d 1017 (1998)

LEGAL AID SOCIETY of HAWAII, Legal Services of Northern California, Inc., San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal Services, Legal Aid Society of Orange County, Alaska Legal Services Corporation, California State Client Council, The Hawaii Justice Foundation, The Impact Fund, and Gary F. Smith, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee, UNITED STATES of America, Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided May 18, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen V. Bomse, Charles N. Freiberg, Adam M. Cole, Hope L. Hudson, Rakesh K. Anand, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, CA, Paul Alston, Bradford L. Tannen, Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing, Honolulu, HI, Stanley E. Levin, Davis Levin Livingston Grande, Honolulu, HI, Steven R. Shapiro, Robin L. Dahlberg, New York City, and Margaret C. Crosby, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Thomas S. Williamson, Jr., Robert A. Long, Jr., Georgia Kazakis, Ernest A. Young, Erika F. King, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee.

Matthew M. Collette, Frank W. Hunger, Steven S. Alm, Stephen W. Preston, Barbara L. Herwig, Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for intervenor-appellee.

David M. Young, Daniel J. Popeo, Washington, DC, for Washington Legal Foundation, Allied Educational Foundation, and U.S. Representative Bill McCollum as amici curiae in support of appellees.

Before: WHITE, Associate Justice, (Ret.), NOONAN and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

WHITE, Associate Justice, (Ret.).

The issue presented in this appeal is whether government restrictions on the activities of organizations who accept funds distributed by the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) are facially unconstitutional. Appellants, a group of organizations and an individual involved in the provision of legal services to indigent persons, contend that the restrictions impose unconstitutional conditions on the exercise of their First Amendment rights...

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