Fifth Circuit issues First Amendment decision

The Law Office of Mary Louise Serafine wishes to draw to the attention of interested attorneys and others the First Amendment opinion issued last week by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Serafine v. Branaman. We think it is an important freedom of speech opinion.

The Center for Individual Rights in Washington, D.C., provides a summary of the opinion on its website, available here: https://www.cir-usa.org/2016/01/fifth-circuit-tosses-texas-psychology-licensing-law/
The Fifth Circuit Opinion, No. 14-51151, is available here in its entirety.

Please contact Joe Gimenez at 713.478.8034 or info@mlserafine.com with questions.

Mary Louise Serafine, Attorney at Law
Austin, Texas
Licensed in Texas, California, New York, and the District of Columbia

Mary Lou Serafine Biography

As an undergraduate, Serafine attended Douglass College, the women’s college of Rutgers’ University, where she graduated with honors in music and held the Theodore Presser Scholarship in piano. She then earned a Ph.D. before attending law school at Yale, where she served as Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal and held the Cullen Prize.

After law school Serafine practiced in Los Angeles in antitrust, mass torts, investment banking-related law, and other areas. She remains a licensed attorney in California, New York, and the District of Columbia, as well as in Texas. Serafine’s earlier work in psychology had grown out of her Ph.D. work in education at the University of Florida, followed by postdoctoral work in psychology at Yale University. She had published scientific research in the fields of psychology and education while serving on the education faculty of the University of Texas at Austin and the psychology faculties of Yale College and Vassar College.

Disclaimer: This website is a blog that aims to present the political, constitutional, and policy opinions of Mary Lou Serafine, on only the topics that are directly addressed. It originally grew out of the federal First Amendment law suit, Serafine v. Branaman, and has since expanded into issues related to licensing in the “talking professions” and to public policy questions concerning licensing in general. Nothing herein is intended as legal advice on any topic, and the website does not offer any psychological or legal services whatsoever. The Comments section is open to all readers and comments are welcomed and answered. The Contact Us section is for the purpose of media and website-related inquiries.

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