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PERSON v. ASSOCIATION OF BAR OF CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 75 C 1473.

414 F.Supp. 144 (1976)

Carl E. PERSON, Plaintiff, v. The ASSOCIATION OF the BAR OF the CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. New York.

June 25, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl E. Person, Esq., plaintiff pro se.

Haliburton Fales, 2d, New York City (White & Case and Robert G. Haile, Jr., and Diane S. Linker, New York City, of counsel), for The Association.

Daniel M. Cohen, New York City (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel), for defendants other than the Bar Association, and for the Attorney General under Executive Law, § 71.

MEMORANDUM and ORDER

DOOLING, District Judge.

Plaintiff has now moved for summary declaratory judgment invalidating Disciplinary Rule 7-109(C) forbidding lawyers' paying or acquiescing in the payment of compensation to a witness contingent upon the content of his testimony or the outcome of the case. Plaintiff asks further, if that relief is granted, for a severance of the part of the case dealing with the Disciplinary Rule (to be denominated 75 C 1473 A...

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