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State Bar & Bar Associations

Mar. 10, 2017

Judge pares back ex-State Bar employee's lawsuit

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge dismissed two of former State Bar public information officer Thomas Layton's three causes of action in his lawsuit against the bar over his 2015 firing.

By Lyle Moran
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A judge has dismissed two of former State Bar public information officer Thomas Layton's three causes of action in his lawsuit against the bar alleging he was fired because of his ties to former Executive Director Joseph L. Dunn.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John P. Doyle also on Wednesday dismissed all but one of the 25 individual defendants Layton had named in a complaint regarding h...

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