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WIDOFF ET AL. v. DISCIPLINARY BOARD ET AL.

No. 881 C.D. 1979.

54 Pa.Commw. 124 (1980)

Mark P. Widoff, Consumer Advocate et al., Petitioners v. The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania et al., Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

October 2, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter W. Cohen, Consumer Advocate, with him Daniel Clearfield and Craig Burgraff, Assistant Consumer Advocates, and Ashley Schannauer, Legal Assistant, for petitioners.

Howland W. Abramson, Assistant Legal Counsel, with him Charles W. Johns, for The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, respondent.

Jonathan Vipond, III, for Court Administrator of Pennsylvania, respondent.

Argued June 4, 1980, before President Judge CRUMLISH and Judges WILKINSON, JR., ROGERS, BLATT, CRAIG, MacPHAIL and WILLIAMS, JR. Judge MENCER did not participate.

OPINION BY JUDGE BLATT, October 2, 1980:

The petitioner, the Office of Consumer Advocate, seeks a declaratory judgment that Disciplinary Rule 7-107(H) of the Pennsylvania Code of Professional Responsibility is unconstitutionally infirm as unduly vague and overbroad.

The Office of Consumer Advocate was legislatively established in 1976 as an arm of the Department of Justice to represent consumers of public utility services in proceedings before the Pennsylvania...

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