Calif. Court Lets Bar Group Withhold Mailing List
A local bar association's victory in court this week should be welcome news for all 270 of California's voluntary bar associations. In a suit involving a disbarred lawyer trying to get his mediation business off the ground, a state appeals court unanimously held that such groups don't violate the state's Unfair Competition Law if they reject requests to buy their membership mailing lists. And that's true, the court said, even if the associations simply want to protect some of their members from price competition.
