State Bar & Bar Associations
Oct. 5, 2023
Attorney’s tweets during 2020 riots not misconduct, judge rules
The State Bar does not have “the unfettered authority to regulate attorneys in their daily lives to censor unfavorable speech,” wrote Judge Dennis G. Saab.
A Los Angeles attorney’s tweets urging that rioters, looters and protesters should be shot during the nationwide violence that followed the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis do not constitute professional misconduct and are free speech, State Bar Court Judge Dennis G. Saab ruled.
In a 33-page decision that included five pages detailing attacks on police, mob gatherings, looting and peaceful protests that occurred as sole practitioner M...
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