laws: ■ The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individu- al to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.... “[I]t is a general and indisputable rule, that where there is a legal right, there is also a legal remedy by suit or action at law, whenever that right is invaded.” Marburg v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137, 163, 2 L.Ed. 60 (1803) (quoting 3 William Blackstone, CommentaRies *23). Courts have long recognized the ability to employ legal counsel as an important part of the right of access to courts. Lawline, 956 F.2d at 1387 (interpreting United Mine Workers of Am., Dist. 12 v. Ill. State Bar Ass’n, 389 U.S. 217, 221-22, 88 S.Ct. 353, 19 L.Ed.2d 426 (1967) (<HOLDING>)). Additionally, the light of access to courts
holding that the sixth and fourteenth amendments imply the right to selfrepresentation holding that school officials may not limit the first amendment rights of students and teachers to freedom of speech and expression holding the freedom of speech assembly and petition guaranteed by the first and fourteenth amendments gives petitioner the right to hire attorneys on a salary basis to assist its members in the assertion of their legal rights holding that plaintiffs complaint alleging deprivation of constitutional rights guaranteed under the first and fourteenth amendments was sufficient to invoke the ex parte young exception holding that a state defendant has a sixth amendment right guaranteed by the fourteenth amendments due process clause to compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor