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CPPC’s Executive Director, Professor Robert Fellmeth, Quoted in Daily Journal on State Bar Disbarment Case Against Eastman


By Katie Gonzalez

Robert C. Fellmeth, Price Professor of Public Interest Law; Executive Director, Centers for Public Interest Law, Consumer Protection Policy Center, and Children's Advocacy Institute
Robert C. Fellmeth, Price Professor of Public Interest Law; Executive Director, Centers for Public Interest Law, Consumer Protection Policy Center, and Children's Advocacy Institute

SAN DIEGO (August 7, 2023) – University of San Diego (USD) School of Law Consumer Protection Policy Center (CPPC) Executive Director Robert C. Fellmeth was quoted in the Los Angeles Daily Journal on the new evidence against John Eastman alleged in the August 1, 2023, Trump indictment by the U.S Department of Justice.

According to the article, the indictment could be bad news for John Eastman as he faces disbarment in the state of California.  Although Eastman is not named in the indictment, he could be one of six unnamed, unindicted co-conspirators.

“The evidence itself may be more substantial than the evidence the State Bar Court has,” said Fellmeth….” But the State Bar does not have the resources that Jack Smith has, particularly on things happening in D.C. and so forth, so I’m hoping that they will be able to draw upon all that evidence and include it as part of the case as appropriate.”

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About Consumer Protection Policy Center

Founded in 1980, the University of San Diego School of Law’s Consumer Protection Policy Center (CPPC) at the Centers for Public Interest Law (CPIL) serves as an academic center of research and advocacy in regulatory and public interest law. CPPC focuses its efforts on the study of an extremely powerful, yet often overlooked, level of government: state regulatory agencies. Under the supervision of experienced public interest attorneys and advocates, CPPC law student interns study California agencies that regulate business, professions, and trades.

CPPC publishes the California Regulatory Law Reporter, a unique legal journal that covers the activities and decisions of over 13 major California regulatory agencies.

In addition to its academic program, CPPC has an advocacy component. Center faculty, professional staff, and interns represent the interests of the unorganized and underrepresented in California’s legislature, courts, and regulatory agencies. CPPC attempts to make the regulatory functions of California government more efficient and visible by serving as a public monitor of state regulatory activity. The Center has been particularly active in reforming the state’s professional discipline systems for attorneys and physicians, and in advocating public interest reforms to the state’s open meetings and public records statutes.

About the University of San Diego School of Law

Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world.  The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest law and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates.  The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 30th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 28th nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.

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