Thornton v. Breland

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “We regard the lawyer’s right and responsibility of zealous advocacy on behalf of his client among the most precious forms of speech.”
• “As such we would pretermit advance enforcement of the canons of ethics and place our faith in the integrity of most of our lawyers and in the effectiveness of our quasi-criminal complaints procedures.”
• noting lawyer’s speech implicates free speech rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).