Meiers v. Gooch

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that, when attorney general is not party to action, he or she may represent opposing state agencies in dispute
• “This special status of the attorney general — where the people of the state are his clients — cannot be disregarded in considering the application of the provisions of the code of professional responsibility to the conduct of his office.”
• Attorney General, as “chief civil law officer . . . must, to the best of his abilities, fulfill his ‘public duty as Attorney-General and his duty as a lawyer to protect the interest of his client, the people of the State’.”
• A government attorney “has for a client the public.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).