The US Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal over whether New York rules against the unauthorized practice of law violate the First Amendment of a debt-education group.
The justices on Monday rejected a petition by Upsolve Inc. to review a US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decision preventing trained non-lawyers from providing free legal guidance to debt collection defendants.
The appeals court held in September that New York’s law restricting the unauthorized practice of law targets the “purpose, focus, and circumstance” for rendering legal advice rather than any specific viewpoint, and therefore subject to intermediate scrutiny from ...
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