No. 18-104

Robert Philip Tuerk v. The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Lower Court: Pennsylvania
Docketed: 2018-07-23
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response WaivedRelisted (2)
Tags: attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection freedom-of-travel freedom-to-travel prior-restraint reciprocal-discipline
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2018-11-16 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether reciprocal upon reciprocal discipline of disbarment of an attorney by his home state that originally disciplined him for one (1) year and a day is unconstitutional

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the reciprocal upon reciprocal discipline of disbarment of an attorney by his home state that originally disciplined him for one (1) year and a day, which fails multiple elements of a singleelement fail constitutionality test that was set by this Honorable Court, is unconstitutional? 2. Whether the reciprocal upon reciprocal discipline of disbarment of an attorney by his home a state that originally disciplined him for one (1) year and a day, whereby the reciprocal discipline of the foreign jurisdiction was unjust, excessive, disproportionate, assessed with infirm facts, a lack of procedural and substantive due process, a lack of equal protection of the law, which violates the Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Equal Protection, and Due Process Clauses, is unconstitutional? 3. Whether there is an unconstitutional prior restraint upon the constitutional right of Freedom to Travel between the states when reciprocal upon reciprocal discipline of disbarment of . an attorney by his home state that had originally disciplined him for one (1) year and a day is unfairly instituted without proper due process? i

Docket Entries

2018-11-19
Rehearing DENIED.
2018-10-31
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/16/2018.
2018-10-24
2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-08-29
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-08-17
Waiver of right of respondent Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to respond filed.
2018-07-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 22, 2018)

Attorneys

Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Harriet R. BrumbergOffice of Disciplinary Counsel, Respondent
Robert Philip Tuerk
Robert P. Tuerk — Petitioner