Consumers Union of United States, Inc. v. Virginia State Bar

How courts have described this case

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• holding that ban on visits by paralegal personnel violated effective assistance of counsel
• “[I]n light of [state law], which expressly mandated his confinement [on death row], appellant had no basis to claim to be the beneficiary of any state-created liberty interest.”
• ʺ[E]ven when a litigant fails to prove actual compensable injury, he is entitled to an award of nominal damages upon proof of violation of a substantive constitutional right.ʺ

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).