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LOCKE v. SHORE

No. 10-11052.

634 F.3d 1185 (2011)

Eva LOCKE, Patricia Anne Levenson, Barbara Vanderkolk Gardner, National Federation of Independent Business, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Joyce SHORE, John P. Ehrig, Aida Bao-Garciga, Roassana Dolan, Wanda Gozdz, et al., Defendants-Appellees,

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 1, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Mellor , Clark M. Neily, III , Paul Michael Sherman , Institute for Justice, Arlington, VA, Jennifer M. Perkins , Institute for Justice, Tempe, AZ, Daniel J. Woodring , Woodring Law Firm, Tallahassee, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Jonathan Alan Glogau , Tallahassee, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Thomas G. Hungar , Richard Gabbert , Amanda H. Neely , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, Washington, DC, for The Office Furniture Dealers Alliance, Amicus Curiae.

Timothy Sandefur , Pac. Legal Found., Sacramento, CA, for Pac. Legal Found. and Nat. Kitchen & Bath Ass'n, Amicus Curiae.

Robert Kry , Molo Lamken , Washington, DC, for Interior Design Protection Council, Alabama Decorators, Artists & Designers, Amicus Curiae.

Amber N. Davis , Beusse, Wolter, Sanks, Mora & Maire, PA, Orlando, FL, Alan M. Siegel , Levy, Sonet & Siegel, LLP, New York City, for American Soc. of Interior Designers, Inc., Amicus Curiae.

Pamela Diane Gilman , Rockville, MD, for Nat. Council for Interior Design Qualification, Inc., Amicus Curiae.

Before MARTIN, COX and BLACK, Circuit Judges.

MARTIN, Circuit Judge:

The question this appeal presents is whether Florida's license requirement for interior designers practicing in commercial settings within the state violates the United States Constitution. The district court held that the license requirement is constitutional under each of the provisions Appellants relied on to challenge it: the First Amendment, the Dormant Commerce Clause, and the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses.

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