Legal Opinion
Petition of Felmeister & Isaacs
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided December 10, 1986PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
WILENTZ, C.J.
The petition in this matter attacks the constitutionality of this Court’s most recently adopted regulation of attorney advertising prohibiting “the use of drawings, animations, dramatization, music or lyrics” and requiring that “[a]ll advertisements ... be presented in a dignified manner.” The regulation, adopted in 1984, and now found in our Rules of Professional Conduct (RPC) 7.2(a), provides:
Subject to the requirements of RPC 7.1 [prohibiting false or misleading advertising], a lawyer may advertise services through public media, such as…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- Hicks v. MirandaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Metromedia, Inc. v. City of San DiegoSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Bates v. State Bar of ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
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3Cited by20 opinions
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- Matter of ZangArizona Supreme Court · 1987
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