Legal Opinion
In Re Review of Opinion 552 of Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided April 9, 1986PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
HANDLER, J.
The issue in this case is whether a municipal attorney may represent both the municipality and individual officials or employees of that municipality when all have been sued as co-defendants in a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics (ACPE or Committee) ruled in Opinion 552 that it is never proper for an attorney simultaneously to represent a governmental entity and any of its officials or employees when they are co-defendants in such a civil rights action. We granted…
2Cases cited38 opinions
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- Smith v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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