A Louisiana lawyer’s First Amendment rights were violated when the state bar association suggested in tweets promoting wellness that all lawyers eat walnuts, get more sun, and work out three times a week, the Fifth Circuit said.
The statements weren’t germane to the practice of law because they didn’t sufficiently relate to legal practice or the legal profession, the opinion by Judge Jerry E. Smith said. “Even assuming healthier lawyers are generally more effective lawyers,” the Louisiana State Bar Association isn’t “an all-encompassing wellness service that may comment on every facet of lawyers’ health and fitness,” Smith said Monday.
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