State troopers with law degrees have appealed a federal judge’s ruling that a government ethics code bars them from practicing law.

The trooper-lawyers hope to be more persuasive in the Third Circuit than they were before U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson, who in July rejected their arguments that the practice ban violates equal protection and due process guarantees, interferes with 14th Amendment property rights and is overbroad.

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