Robert L. Caleb v. James Reyes, etc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that punishing a lawyer for political expression \must withstand the `exacting scrutiny applicable to limitations on core First Amendment rights'\
• holding that punishing a lawyer for political expression “must withstand the ‘exacting scrutiny applicable to limitations on core First Amendment rights’ ”
• holding that broad rules regulating attorneys cannot be enacted if they impair the First Amendment fundamental right of collective activity undertaken to obtain meaningful access to the courts
• holding that a state's interest in effective judicial administration must bend before an attorney's First Amendment rights
• holding that a lawyer’s solicitation of pro-bono client was protected by the First Amendment because the lawyer’s actions “were undertaken to express personal political beliefs and to advance ... civil-liberties objectives ... rather than to derive financial gain”
• noting that “State is free to fashion reasonable restrictions with respect to the time, place, and manner of solicitation by members of its Bar”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).