A New Jersey attorney is suing a Supreme Court panel over a ban on attorneys’ ads that quote judges’ favorable comments about them, claiming it violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

Andrew Dwyer alleges in his May 30 suit in federal court in Newark that the Committee on Attorney Advertising restricts commercial speech without showing the ban is the least-restrictive means to achieve a substantial state interest.

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