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SANDER v. SUPERIOR COURT

Nos. A150061, A150625.

26 Cal.App.5th 651 (2018)

RICHARD SANDER et al., Petitioners v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN FRANCISCO CITY AND COUNTY, Respondent; STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA et al., Real Parties in Interest. RICHARD SANDER et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA et al., Defendants and Respondents; DWIGHT AARONS et al., Interveners and Respondents.

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

August 23, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jassy Vick Carolan, Jean-Paul Jassy , Kevin L. Vick and Duffy Carolan , for Petitioner and Appellant Richard Sander.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, James M. Chadwick , Guylyn R. Cummins , Andrea N. Feathers ; First Amendment Coalition and David E. Snyder , for Petitioner and Appellant First Amendment Coalition.

Eugene Volokh , Richard J. Peltz-Steele , and Robert E. Steinbuch , for National Association of Scholars, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners and Appellants.

Pacific Legal Foundation, Joshua P. Thompson , and Timothy R. Snowball , for Pacific Legal Foundation, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners and Appellants.

Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jennifer Lynch , Aaron Mackey, and Adam Schwartz , for Electronic Frontier Foundation, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners and Appellants.

Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press, Katie Townsend , Bruce D. Brown , and Michael Shapiro , for Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press, American Society of News Editors, Associated Press Media Editors, Association of Alternative Newsmedia, Bay Area News Group, The California News Publishers Association, Californians Aware, The Center for Investigative Reporting, Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, The McClatchy Company, MPA — The Association of Magazine Media, National Press Photographers Association, Online News Association and Society of Professional Journalists as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners and Appellants.

Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, John C. Eastman , Anthony T. Caso ; and Gail Heriot , for Peter Kirsanow and Gail Heriot as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners and Appellants.

Kerr & Wagstaffe, James M. Wagstaffe , Michael von Loewenfeldt , Melissa Perry ,; State Bar of California Office of General Counsel, Vanessa Lynne Holton , and Destie Lee Overpeck , for Defendants and Respondents.

Steptoe & Johnson, William F. Abrams , Margaret Pirnie Kammerud , and David H. Kwasniewski , for Intervenors and Real Parties in Interest.

OPINION

Appellants and petitioners Richard Sander and the First Amendment Coalition (Petitioners) challenge the trial court's denial of their petition for writ of mandate seeking to obtain information from the State Bar of California's bar admissions database. Specifically, Petitioners seek individually unidentifiable...

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