Legal Opinion
Matter of Anis
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided January 10, 1992PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Per curiam
The familiar spectacle of lawyers and their agents preying on the victims of disaster has occasioned revulsion and prompted calls for reform. In the aftermath of the tragic release of poison gas at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, “American lawyers rushed to India in an attempt to retain clients and in their zeal brought shame and discredit to the American Bar.” Eric S. Roth, Confronting Solicitation of Mass Disaster Victims, 2 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 967, 972 (1989) (Roth). The examples of abuse are chilling. Shortly after the crash of a Northwest airliner in Detroit on August 16,…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NMSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Board of Trustees of State Univ. of NY v. FoxSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Shapero v. Kentucky Bar Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Peel v. Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission of IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
- In Re Korean Air Lines Disaster of September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines Company, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1991
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3Cited by18 opinions
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- In Re PajerowskiSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1998
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