“CL&P Blog: New York’s Attorney Advertising Rules Held Unconstitutional”
July 25, 2007 — lennyesq
New York’s Attorney Advertising Rules Held Unconstitutional The Northern District of New York ruled July 23rd, 2007 that New York’s amended rules against attorney advertising are unconstitutional and permanently enjoined enforcement of most of the challenged provisions. The court agreed with Public Citizen’s argument that the state had not shown that the rules were necessary to help consumers and were not narrowly tailored to the state’s asserted purpose. In fact, the rules restricted truthful advertising that would benefit consumers.
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August 2, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Public Citizen seems to have an upside down vision of what this ruling was all about.
It had nothing to do with content. It only slapped the over-stepping State of N.Y. into place.
–Jack Payne
August 3, 2007 at 12:05 pm
I suppose one should allow the victorious plaintiff its “spin” on the decision.
I am not happy about still having to label my office web site with “Attorney Advertising”.
To me the idea of OCA writing ethical rules for lawyers on technology is very scary. They have no concept of “peaceful” uses of computers.