SANDER v. STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA

No. S194951.

58 Cal.4th 300 (2013)

165 Cal. Rptr. 3d 250

314 P.3d 488

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

Supreme Court of California.

December 19, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, James M. Chadwick , Evgenia N. Fkiaras , David E. Snyder and Guylyn R. Cummins for Plaintiff and Appellant California First Amendment Coalition.

Jane Roberta Yakowitz ; Bostwick & Jassy, Gary L. Bostwick , Jean-Paul Jassy and Kevin L. Vick for Plaintiffs and Appellants Richard Sander and Joe Hicks.

Davis Wright Tremaine, Mary Duffy Carolan and John Rory Eastburg for Brentwood Press and Publishing Co., California Newspapers Partnership, Calistoga Tribune, Calaveras Enterprise, Champion Newspapers, Dailey Republic, Embarcadero Media Inc., Feather Publishing Co., Inc., Freedom Communications, Inc., Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, Malibu Times Inc., Marinscope Community Newspapers, Mission Viejo News, Inc., Random Lengths News, Sacramento Valley Mirror, Santa Maria Times, The Ark Newspaper, The Bakersfield Californian, The McClatchy Company, The Mountain Enterprise, The North County Times, The Press-Enterprise, The Viking, Valleywide Newspapers, Ventura County Reporter, ALM Media, LLC, The Associated Press, Atlantic Media, Inc., Bloomberg News, Cox Media Group, Inc., Dailey News, L.P., E.W. Scripps Company, Forbes, Inc., Gannett Co., Inc., Hearst Corporation, NBC Universal Media, LLC, Reuters America LLC, Stephens Media LLC, The Newsweek/Dailey Beast Company LLC, The New York Times Company, The Washington Post, American Society of News Editors, Association of Alternative Newsmedia, Californians Aware, The California Newspaper Publishers Association, National Freedom of Information Coalition, The National Press Photographers Association, The Radio Television Digital News Association and The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press 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 , Meriem L. Hubbard 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.

Joshua Koltun for Doug Williams as Amicus 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.

Snell & Wilmer, Mary-Christine Sungaila and Harsh P. Parikh for Multicultural Bar Alliance as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Reed Smith and Dennis Peter Maio for The Bar Association of San Francisco as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Eva Paterson , Allison S. Elgart and Fabian Renteria for Equal Justice Society as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Perkins Coie, Vilma R. Palma-Solana , Sunita Bali ; Lim, Ruger Kim, Bruce Iwasaki and Norma Nava for People of Color, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Bingham McCutchen, William F. Abrams , Patrick T. Weston and Audrey Lo for Dwight Aarons, George Acero, Daniel James Alexander II, Charlene Bellinger Honig, Nikki Brown, Peter L. Carr IV, Claudia J. Castillo, Eugene Clark-Herrera, Francisco Cortes, Kendra Fox Davis, Lisa Gilford, Marc-Tizoc Gonzalez, Rebecca Hall, Sara Jackson, Rasheda Kilpatrick, Parissh A. Knox, Andrea Luquetta, Xochitl Marquez, Letitia D. Moore, Shirin Soleman, Angela Crystelle Thomas-Taylor, Anthony J. Tolbert, Erika K. Woods and Doe 1 as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

CANTIL-SAKAUYE, C. J.

Plaintiffs Richard Sander, Joe Hicks, and the (California) First Amendment Coalition requested that the State Bar of California (State Bar) provide them access to information contained in its bar admissions database, including applicants' bar exam scores, law schools attended, grade point averages, Law School Admissions Test scores, and race or ethnicity. Plaintiff Sander sought this information in order...

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