UCLA law prof wins interim appeal regarding State Bar data; court comments on the nature of the State Bar of California

Richard Sander, UCLA law prof, is on a mission to end affirmative action. His thesis is that it leads minority law students to fail up. Basically he says that it's better to be at the top of a weak school than the bottom of a strong one. To vindicate his hypothesis he seeks California State Bar data. The State Bar resisted - claiming judicial data is not public data. But the intermediate Court of Appeal disagreed. In an interesting opinion it describes the State Bar as a public corporation with both judicial and administrative functions - subject to the control of both the California Supreme Court and the state legislature.

Legal Ethics Forum: UCLA law prof wins interim appeal regarding State Bar data; court comments on the nature of the State Bar of California