Justice Thomas Gives Shout-Out to Fla. Lawyer
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. The BLT caught up with Ibanez, who now practices transactional, tax and estate law in Florida.
