Sander v. State Bar of Cal.

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 records for all applicants to the California Bar Examination from 1972 to 2008 in the following categories: race or ethnicity, law school, transfer status, year of law school graduation, law school and undergraduate GPA, LSAT scores, and performance on the bar examination. Making these…