Attorneys may challenge speech rule

ALBANY, N.Y. — The Second Circuit vacated the dismissal of two attorneys’ First Amendment and 14th Amendment challenges to a newly enacted rule in the Connecticut Rules of Professional Conduct, which they say will chill speech that could be regarded as harassing or discriminatory. The attorneys blog and speak at conferences and attorney meetings about issues related to religious exercise, trans identity and critical race theory, and they have persuasively demonstrated that their speech could arguably be proscribed by the new rule.