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CONSUMERS UNION OF U. S. v. AMERICAN BAR ASS'N

Civ. A. No. 75-0105-R.

505 F.Supp. 822 (1981)

CONSUMERS UNION OF UNITED STATES, INC., et al. v. AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

January 8, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Benton, Jr., Hill, Tucker & March, Richmond, Va., Ellen Broadman, Peter H. Schuck and Marsha N. Cohen, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Robert H. Patterson, Jr., Judith B. Henry, Randolph Rollins, Anne Marie Whittemore, Walter H. Ryland, Deputy Atty. Gen. of Va., John F. Rick, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., Robert D. McLean, H. Blair White, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., for defendant.

Before BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and MERHIGE and WARRINER, District Judges.

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

This action has been pending since 1975 before us, sitting as a three-judge tribunal, with appeals at intervals to the Supreme Court of the United States. It has now been refined to the sole question of whether the plaintiff, Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. (Consumers), having prevailed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on its assertion that Virginia Bar Code Disciplinary Rule 2-102(A)(6) (the Rule) unconstitutionally hindered...

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