WASHINGTON LEGAL FOUND. v. LEGAL FOUND. OF WA

No. 98-35154.

271 F.3d 835 (2001)

WASHINGTON LEGAL FOUNDATION; Allen D. Brown; Dennis H. Daugs; Greg Hayes; L. Dian Maxwell, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON; Kevin F. Kelly; Barbara Durham, Chief Justice; Gerry L. Alexander, Justice; James M. Dolliver, Justice; Richard P. Guy, Justice; Charles Wayne Johnson, Justice; Barbara A. Madsen, Justice; Charles Z. Smith, Justice; Philip A. Talmadge, Justice, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Argued and Submitted June 21, 2001.

Filed November 14, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Purcell, Esq., Seattle, Washington, for the plaintiffs-appellants; Daniel J. Popeo, Esq., Washington, DC, for the plaintiffs-appellants; Richard Samp, Esq., Washington, DC, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

David J. Burman, Esq., Nicholas P. Gellert, Esq., Todd E. Pettys, Esq., Kathleen M. O'Sullivan, Esq., Perkins Coie, LLP, Seattle, Washington, for the Defendants-Appellees, Legal Foundation of Washington and Bradley C. Diggs; Maureen A. Hart, Esq., Assistant Attorney General, Olympia, Washington, for the defendants-appellees, Washington State Supreme Court Justices.

Stephen M. Rummage, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Seattle, WA, for the amicus curiae the American Bar Association; Thomas P. Brown, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, CA, for the amici curiae Alaska Bar Foundation, Arizona Bar Foundation and Oregon Law Foundation; Peter M. Siegel, Florida Justice Institute, Inc., Miami, FL, for the amici curiae National Association of IOLTA Programs and 64 State IOLTA Programs, State Bar Associations and other organizations concerned with the availability of legal aid to the poor; Robert Dean Welden, Seattle, WA, for the amicus curiae Washington State Bar Association.

Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, PREGERSON, KOZINSKI, TROTT, KLEINFELD, TASHIMA, SILVERMAN, WARDLAW, FISHER, BERZON, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing En Banc Granted May 9, 2001.

Argued and Submitted En Banc June 21, 2001.

WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:

Four individuals, Allen Brown, Greg Hayes, Dennis Daugs, and Dian Maxwell, and the Washington Legal Foundation (collectively "Appellants") challenge the legality of Washington State's Interest on Lawyers' Trust Account ("IOLTA") program on First and Fifth Amendment grounds. Beginning where the Supreme Court left off in Phillips v. Washington...

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