LegalMatch.com failed to allege adequately that a California law regulating the legal referral service unconstitutionally limits its free speech rights, and must pay $10,000 in sanctions for its behavior during discovery, a San Francisco judge said Thursday.
Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman adopted a tentative ruling dismissing LegalMatch’s claim that the rule’s strict requirements prevent truthful advertising of a lawful service.
LegalMatch has operated an online version of the yellow pages for more than 20 years, it said, and during that time it wasn’t considered a lawyer referral service, in part because it matched attorneys to consumers based solely on ...
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