10 Cal. 3d 824 - Belli v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Smith v. People of the State of California · Martin v. City of Struthers
Most-quoted passages
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“"We leave the bar's solicitation rule free to operate in areas not affecting constitutionally protected speech. We hold, however, that when the bar seeks to discipline an attorney for a communication incident to protected speech, in addition to showing that the attorney intended by his communication to generate business for his law practice, it must demonstrate that the communication or a part thereof was Principally directed toward this end. We build into this construction of rule 2 a belief that the speech interest prevails over the desire of the bar to minimize solicitation of legal business both because the former is anchored in the federal Constitution and because it is properly accorded a fundamental position within that document."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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