Princeton Community Phone Book, Inc. v. Bate

OPINION OF THE COURT

VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal raises a number of issues concerning Opinion 290 of the Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics of the New Jersey Supreme Court, prohibiting members of the New Jersey Bar from paying the Princeton Community Phone Book, Inc. to list their names, addresses and telephone numbers in the classified section of its publication. Plaintiffs sued claiming that, by adoption of Opinion 290, the defendants injured them by (a) depriving them of their constitutional rights,1 in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983,2 and (b) by restraining competition among…