Justice Thomas Gives Shout-Out to Fla. Lawyer
February 6th, 2010
Supreme Court justices don’t often compliment the lawyers who appear before them — much less lawyers who argued more than 15 years ago. But that’s what Justice Clarence Thomas did in a talk at a Florida law school last week, recalling that he was persuaded by Silvia Ibanez, the petitioner in a commercial speech case involving attorney advertising who argued on her own behalf before the Court in 1994