Corruptly or wilfully and without authority appearing as attorney for a party to an action or proceeding constitutes a cause for disbarment or suspension.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 6104
Disciplinary Authority of the Courts
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 42 Cal. 3d 595 - People v. Houston (1986)
Most recently applied in People v. Fedalizo (March 2016)
Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 34.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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