No. 21-730

'Lanre O. Amu v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission

Lower Court: Illinois
Docketed: 2021-11-17
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing freedom-of-press freedom-of-speech judicial-misconduct racial-discrimination
Key Terms:
ERISA DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2022-01-14
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Illinois Supreme Court Justices are condoning racism and discrimination against the Petitioner

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether in light of the public Oaths taken in The Name of God to faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office, the seven Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court are not paying lip service to racial justice in Illinois, and are not tacitly condoning racism, race (black) and national origin (Nigeria) discrimination and xenophobia, against the Petitioner, : ‘Lanre O. Amu, a black African-immigrant attorney, that they suspended from the practice of law since 2013, for filing ethics complaints that in their narrative impugned the integrity of Judge Lynn M. Egan and others, when nobody took an Oath to articulate any wrongdoing by the Petitioner at the “adversarial” attorney disciplinary hearing orchestrated to suspend his law license. 2. Whether the Respondent, the IARDC, has the authority to commence disciplinary proceedings against the Petitioner to gain the upper-hand in their dispute, to discredit the Petitioner, and to get the Petitioner suspended from the practice of law, because the Petitioner refused to go along with the IARDC’s refusal to investigate Petitioner’s July 21, 2011 ethics complaint against IARDC’s cronies, and because Petitioner threatened to sue the IARDC in the federal court and to also report the matter to the U.S. Depart, ment of Justice, when Crain’s Chicago Business’ March 1, 2014 independent investigative report later confirmed in toto the merits, the sanctity, and the truth of the . ‘ tip of the iceberg of Petitioner’s July 21, 2011 ethics complaint that IARDC had denied, suppressed, and claimed was false to get Petitioner suspended from the practice of law. ii . 3. Whether the Respondent, the IARDC, its Hearing Board, its Review Board and the Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court did not conspire to subject the Petitioner to sham and psychologically abusive attorney disciplinary proceedings as vehicle to suspend Petition| . er’s law license in 2013 on claims that the Petitioner | lacked evidence to prove the judicial corruption | he alleged in his ethics complaints when in fact the IARDC Hearing Board ignored Petitioner’s credible uncontradicted, unimpeached, logical, and irrefutable evidentiary testimony at the hearing, and the Illinois Supreme Court in tandem quashed all of Petitioner’s subpoenas to compel witnesses in Petitioner’s defense. 4. Whether the seven Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court did not deny the Petitioner a Fair Hearing in 2021 by giving credence to IARDC’s unsworn or unverified response to Petitioner’s verified (sworn) Petition to unconditionally vacate the 2013 suspension of his law license where Illinois law, 735 ILCS 5/2-605(a), mandated that IARDC’s response to Petitioner’s verified Petition be subjected to the Oath as instrument of authentic verification. 5. Whether the seven Justices of the Illinois . Supreme Court’s inability and/or refusal to give any written reason for their July 9, 2021 decision denying Petitioner’s Petition to unconditionally vacate the 2018 suspension of his law license, and/or their August 17, 2021 decision denying Petitioner’s motion for reconsideration of the July 9, 2021 order is not a denial of Due Process, and Fair Hearing. , 6. Whether the Due Process Clause, the Equal Protection of the Laws Clause, and the Right to a Fair Hearing inherent in the Fifth and/or the Fourteenth Amendment(s) to the Constitution of the United States ‘ were not violated when Petitioner, a black Africanimmigrant attorney was treated less favorably than similarly charged white attorneys in terms of both Fair Hearing rights and/or the sanctions imposed; when at the white attorneys’ hearings the eyewitnesses, judges and attorneys, testified in flesh and blood under Oath, and the white attorneys found guilty were each given 5 months “suspended” suspension from the practice of law; while at the black Petitioner’s hearing on the same charge, no substantive witnesses were allowed to testify, Petitioner’s subpoenas to compel eyewitnes

Docket Entries

2022-01-18
Petition DENIED.
2021-12-29
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/14/2022.
2021-11-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 17, 2021)

Attorneys

'Lanre O. Amu
'Lanre O. Amu — Petitioner