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SANDER v. STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA

No. A128647.

196 Cal.App.4th 614 (2011)

RICHARD SANDER et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Three.

June 10, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane Roberta Yakowitz ; Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, James M. Chadwick , Evgenia N. Fkiaras , David E. Snyder , Guylyn R. Cummins ; Bostwick & Jassy, Gary L. Bostwick , Jean-Paul Jassy and Kevin L. Vick for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Davis Wright Tremaine , Mary Duffy Carolan and John Eastburg for News Media Organizations as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Law Office of Judy Alexander and Judy Alexander for Vikram Amar , Jane Roberta Yakowitz and Mark Grady as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Sharon L. Browne and Joshua P. Thompson for Pacific Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, John Eastman , Anthony T. Caso , Karen J. Lugo and David Llewellyn for Gerald Reynolds , Todd Gaziano , Gail Heriot , Peter Kirsanow and Ashley Taylor, Jr. , as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Kerr & Wagstaffe, James M. Wagstaffe , Michael John Von Loewenfeldt ; Starr Babcock , Lawrence C. Yee and Rachel S. Grunberg for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

SIGGINS, J.—

Appellants Richard Sander, Joe Hicks and First Amendment Coalition (formerly California First Amendment Coalition) seek access to admissions records from the State Bar of California (the Bar), subject to conditions designed to ensure the privacy of bar applicants, in order to conduct academic research on discrepancies in bar passage rates among racial and ethnic groups. After the Bar rejected Sander's request, appellants...

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