No. 18-509

Charles G. Kinney v. State Bar of California, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2018-10-18
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived Experienced Counsel
Tags: anti-trust civil-rights civil-rights-violations color-of-authority due-process first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct professional-speech standing state-bar-regulation vexatious-litigant
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Latest Conference: 2018-11-09
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in dismissing multiple appeals by the petitioner and using 'vexatious litigant' and 'puppet' labels to punish the petitioner for challenging anti-competitive acts by the State Bar of California that violated the petitioner's First Amendment rights and other constitutional protections

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney’s 4 pending appeals, did these same 3 Judges on a Ninth Circuit panel abuse their discretion by ; covering-up acts by courts and the State Bar that , violated Janus and NIFLA? Those courts used . ' “vexatious litigant” and “puppet” labels, rulings, and threats of sanctions and disbarment (since attorneys must join the State Bar and pay dues via agency-based fees) to punish an attorney (who is now a pro se litigant) because he was unwilling to agree with Bar positions that subsidized private third parties and their political agenda as to how an attorney or pro se litigant must behave as to “professional speech” for his clients or himself; as to judges who do not adjudicate disputes but instead act as prosecutors of him under color of authority; and as to ongoing violations of law [e.g. violations of bankruptcy law in favor of debtor Clark who listed Kinney as a creditor; ADA violations near his Los Angeles house; CWA violations near his Laguna Beach house, and failures to provide “honest services”]. 2. Did these courts abuse their discretion when ; acting as prosecutors under color of authority? 3. Did this appeal (1 of 8) have “merit” because it challenged anti-competitive acts by a unified Bar which adversely affected interstate commerce? 4. Did these courts abuse their discretion by ; ignoring repetitive and ongoing 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 violations of Kinney’s federal civil rights? i

Docket Entries

2018-11-13
Petition DENIED.
2018-10-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/9/2018.
2018-10-19
Waiver of right of respondent The State Bar of California to respond filed.
2018-07-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 19, 2018)

Attorneys

Charles Kinney
Charles G. Kinney — Petitioner
Charles G. Kinney — Petitioner
The State Bar of California
Robert G. RetanaState Bar of California, Respondent
Robert G. RetanaState Bar of California, Respondent