L.A. attorney ethics beat  by Walter Olson on June 24, 2007
1 Supremacy Claus 06.24.07 at 9:44 am  One of the lawyers here
has to explain something.  A police officer writes a letter
expressing satisfaction at the lawyer’s indictment, a true
event. He gets sued by a lawyer for inflicting emotional
distress. How is that letter an act “so outrageous as to be
beyond the bounds of civilized society,” a required element of
an emotional distress claim?  Then the lawyer calls a judge an
antisemite, and 100 lawyers support disrespect of the court, by
their brief, signed by all of them.  Where were the 100 pro-free
speech lawyers when their fellow lawyer sued to retaliate for a
non-libelous police officer letter asserting a fact in the
public record?  2 Walter Olson 06.24.07 at 10:54 am  I think the
second Patterico post linked above provides a partial answer to
your question. Although the L.A. Times misleadingly reports that
the 100 lawyers (including Eugene Volokh, no First Amendment
slouch) “rallied to [Yagman'