Florida Bar v. Went For It, Inc.
1995 United States Supreme Court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Florida Bar v. Went For It, Inc., 515 U.S. 618 (1995), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld a state's restriction on lawyer advertising under the First Amendment's commercial speech doctrine. The Court's decision was the first time it did so since Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, 433 U.S. 350 (1977), lifted the traditional ban on lawyer advertising.
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Quick Facts Florida Bar v. Went For It, Inc., Argued January 11, 1995 Decided June 21, 1995 ...
Florida Bar v. Went For It, Inc. | |
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Argued January 11, 1995 Decided June 21, 1995 | |
Full case name | Florida Bar, Petitioner v. Went For It, Inc. and John T. Blakely |
Citations | 515 U.S. 618 (more) 115 S. Ct. 2371; 132 L. Ed. 2d 541; 1995 U.S. LEXIS 4250; 63 U.S.L.W. 4644; 23 Media L. Rep. 1801; 95 Cal. Daily Op. Service 4714; 95 Daily Journal DAR 8103; 9 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 223 |
Case history | |
Prior | Declaratory judgment in favor of plaintiffs, holding Florida's short-term ban on solicitation by lawyers to be unconstitutional, 808 F. Supp. 1543 (M.D. Fla. 1992), affirmed by the Eleventh Circuit, 21 F.3d 1038 (11th Cir. 1994); cert. granted, 512 U.S. 1289 (1994). |
Holding | |
The First Amendment allows states to prohibit lawyers from directly soliciting potential clients within 30 days of an accident or a disaster. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | O'Connor, joined by Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, Breyer |
Dissent | Kennedy, joined by Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. amend. I |
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