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MTR. OF N.Y. COUNTY LAWYERS ASSN. (ROEL)

3 N.Y.2d 224 (1957)

In the Matter of New York County Lawyers Association, Respondent. Lorenzo J. Roel, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 3, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Homer H. Breland for appellant.

Otto C. Sommerich, Phillip W. Haberman, Jr., and Albert R. Connelly for Association of the Bar of the City of New York, amicus curiæ.

Abraham N. Davis, Isidor Enselman, H. Randolph Guggenheimer, Albert Hirst, Joseph V. Kline and Robert H. Davis for respondent.

Alfred E. Buck and Raymond Reisler for Brooklyn Bar Association, amicus curiæ, in support of respondent's position.

Raymond Reisler for New York State Bar Association, amicus curiæ, in support of respondent's position.

CONWAY, Ch. J., DESMOND, DYE and BURKE, JJ., concur with FROESSEL, J.; VAN VOORHIS, J., dissents in an opinion in which FULD, J., concurs.

FROESSEL, J.

In this proceeding, brought under subdivision B of section 750 of the Judiciary Law, appellant has been adjudged in contempt (without further penalty) and enjoined, among other things, "from practicing or assuming to practice law in any manner whatsoever, and from giving and furnishing any legal advice and opinions and rendering legal services of any kind, nature and description".

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