# Sadler v. Oregon State Bar

> Oregon Supreme Court · June 17, 1976 · 275 Or. 279

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9557984

## Case

- **Full name:** SADLER, Appellant, v. OREGON STATE BAR, Respondent
- **Court:** Oregon Supreme Court
- **Decided:** June 17, 1976
- **Citations:** 275 Or. 279; 550 P.2d 1218; 83 A.L.R. 3d 762; 1976 Ore. LEXIS 790
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Howell
- **Judges:** Tongue, Howell, McAllister
- **Cited by:** 32 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding statute which allowed public inspection of bar association records of complaints about attorney conduct did not substantially impair the inherent power of the judicial branch to regulate the bar

## Opinion text

HOWELL, J.,
specially concurring.
I cannot disagree with the reasoning expressed in the majority opinion. However, now that we hold that complaints made against a member of the bar, no matter how false or frivolous, are subject to disclosure, it may be that this court should reconsider the policy reasons which granted absolute immunity to a complainant in Ramstead v. Morgan, 219 Or 383 , 347 P2d 594 , 77 ALR2d 481 (1959).

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