October 20, 2022
First Amendment attorney Zachary Greenberg shot back at a bid to reinstate a new anti-bias rule that would impose ethics penalties on lawyers who knowingly engage in racial and sexual discrimination, arguing in a court filing Thursday that the rule from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's attorney disciplinary board violates free speech.
September 14, 2022
Three Pennsylvania bar associations have asked the Third Circuit to overturn a ruling by a federal judge that found a new anti-discrimination rule for lawyers violated the First Amendment, calling the decision wrongheaded and based on purely speculative arguments.
March 25, 2022
An attempt to adopt an anti-bias rule by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's disciplinary board was blocked for the second time Thursday when a federal judge ruled that the revised wording violated the First Amendment.
August 19, 2021
A Philadelphia lawyer who convinced a federal judge last year to strike down a new anti-bias rule for attorneys renewed his First Amendment challenge on Thursday after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court approved an amended version of the provision aimed at surviving legal scrutiny.
December 08, 2020
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday found that a newly implemented ethics rule in the state allowing attorneys to face discipline over expressions of bias or prejudice threatened to infringe on the free speech rights of members of the bar.
October 19, 2020
A Philadelphia lawyer asked a Pennsylvania federal court on Friday to block an anti-bias rule for state lawyers from going into effect, just hours after the state ethics board said his suit challenging the rule was "based on prolific speculation" and moved to have it axed.
August 06, 2020
A Philadelphia attorney launched a federal lawsuit Thursday alleging that a recently adopted ethics rule barring expressions of bias or prejudice by members of the Pennsylvania bar runs afoul of First Amendment free speech protections.