Civil Rights Action Against State Bar and its officers
Canatella v. California State Bar
2007 WL 1296871 (9th Cir. 2007)
The Firm defended the California State Bar, its president and general counsel in a civil rights action filed by an attorney alleging that his state bar discipline had been misrepresented on the State Bar website, successfully obtaining dismissal of the case by way of summary judgment on statute of limitations grounds.
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment, holding in a matter of first impression that the single publication rule applies to alleged defamatory statements contained on websites, even where the website has changed its URL.
For a copy of the published Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision affirming the case's dismissal, click here.
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