Renee Newman Knake on Corporations, the Delivery of Legal Services, and the First Amendment Part II

Renee Knake Jefferson September 20, 2011

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In Part I of this post, I identified a jurisprudential thread of cases that suggest corporations have a First Amendment right to own and invest in law practices for the delivery legal services.  These decisions include NAACP v. Button, the union trilogy, and Bates v. State Bar of Arizona.  Two recent cases shed light on how the Supreme Court might view my collective reading of NAACP v. Button and its progeny: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commissionand Sorrell v. IMS Health.

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