Earlier this week, a federal appeals court ruled that lawyers retain the First Amendment right to run ads which contain a judge which praises their work. This reverses an earlier ruling by the lower court. On Monday, the Third U.S. Court of Appeals made a ruling in favor of a litigator from New Jersey who claimed that the state's rules about attorney advertising was infringing on his constitutional rights. Andrew Dwyer is a workplace discrimination lawyer from Newark, NJ protested a guideline which bars lawyers from grabbing a passage which contains praise for their work form a judicial opinion and using it to promote their work. Dwyer represented himself in court on the issue and the Third Circuit ruling was in his favor and stated that the state's guideline did impose an unconstitutional burden on the lawyer.
The guideline was drawn up in 2012 when a judge complained that Dwyer had quoted lines from judges which praised his work.
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