On October 30 of this year, in the case of Steiner et al. v. The Superior Court of Santa Barbara County, an interesting First Amendment question arose. One of the attorney’s websites advertised that she had had success in two prior cases that were similar to the case that she was about to try. (They were personal injury actions, all with similar facts.) The Court, in response, ordered that the attorney had to take down the relevant portion of her website—that is, the portion that discussed that attorney’s favorable outcomes in similar cases.
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