Does the First Amendment Protect Interior Designers?
Locke v. Shore is a challenge to a Florida law that requires interior designers to be licensed by the government before they may work in a commercial setting. The plaintiffs are three interior designers and the National Federation of Independent Business, some of whose members wish to engage in speech that Florida has broadly defined as the “practice of interior design.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit declared last March that the regulation of “professionals’…direct, personalized speech with clients” received no First Amendment scrutiny whatsoever.
Will the U.S. Supreme Court review this decision?