State Bar & Bar Associations
Apr. 23, 2016
Dear state Supreme Court,
An open letter to the California Supreme Court on deunification and compliance with federal law.
Robert C. Fellmeth
Price Professor of Public Interest Law
University of San Diego School of Law
The sections of the State Bar of California help educate practitioners in areas of practice - but there are inherent structural problems in the mixing of a public agency and a private trade association. The public agency identity means that sunshine statutes properly apply, as they do now to the State Bar, including both the Public Records Act and the Bagley-Keene Open Meetings Act. The sections, however, are trade associations of competitors, who unsurprisingly find such transparency unne...
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