No. 18-1537

Youras Ziankovich v. Colorado

Lower Court: Colorado
Docketed: 2019-06-13
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding due-process federal-agency federal-agency-practice federal-preemption free-speech interstate-practice legal-ethics license-suspension preemption professional-conduct professional-misconduct standing state-licensing supremacy-clause
Key Terms:
ERISA DueProcess Securities Immigration
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Colorado violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by suspending his New York law license for alleged violations of Colorado's professional conduct rules while practicing before a federal agency, when New York found no violations of its own rules of professional conduct for the same conduct.

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Petitioner is a lawyer licensed by the State of New York and duly authorized to practice before the U.S Department of Homeland Security pursuant to the federal regulations. State of New York requires Petitioner to abide NY RPC while practicing in front of non-court federal agencies, such as DHS. Petitioner was never licensed or admitted in Colorado. However, Colorado Supreme Court suspended Petitioner's New York license for the violation of Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct while practicing before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. State of New York found no violation of NY RPC in Petitioner’s conduct. The question presented is whether Colorado violated Petitioner’s constitutional rights through maintenance of the discipline proceeding. ii

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-06-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-06-14
Waiver of right of respondent Colorado to respond filed.
2019-04-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 15, 2019)

Attorneys

Colorado
Bryon Matthew LargeColorado Supreme Court Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, Respondent
Youras Ziankovich
Youras Ziankovich — Petitioner