Legal Opinion
Steiner v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided October 30, 2013No. B235347PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
PERREN, J.
An attorney’s Web site advertised her success in two cases raising issues similar to those she was about to try here. The trial court admonished the jury not to “Google” the attorneys or to read any articles about the case or anyone involved in it. Concerned that a juror might ignore these admonitions, the court ordered the attorney to remove for the duration of trial two pages from her Web site discussing the similar cases. We conclude this was an unlawful prior restraint on the attorney’s free speech rights under the First Amendment. Whether analyzed under the strict…
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