| 25-743 |
Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
constitutional-rights disbarment due-process judicial-procedure lawyer-discipline legal-ethics |
1. Whether the court that has jurisdiction over lawyer disciplinary matters can issue orders disbarring an attorney without first addressing cited, un… |
| 25A516 |
Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
2025-11-04 |
Application |
attorney-discipline bar-counsel constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings professional-misconduct |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires constitutional procedural safeguards in state bar disciplinary proceedings against attorneys, notwithstanding … |
| 24A1072 |
Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
2025-05-06 |
Presumed Complete |
attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure state-supreme-court |
Whether a state supreme court's summary disbarment order violates an attorney's constitutional due process rights when the underlying disciplinary pro… |
| 24-234 |
Raymond Guzall III v. Grievance Administrator, Attorney Grievance Commission of Michigan |
Michigan |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
court-manipulation due-process evidence-concealment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias legal-procedure |
Can a state prosecute upon manipulated court records or withhold original court recordings that potentially exonerate a defendant? |
| 23-7230 |
In Re Alissa M. Peterson |
|
2024-04-16 |
Denied |
6th-amendment civil-rights due-process fair-trial gideon-v-wainwright judicial-misconduct legal-representation |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the Attorney Grievance Commission and Judicial Tenure Commission to remand the case issue to the low… |
| 23-747 |
Marylin Pierre v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
actual-malice civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline legal-ethics new-york-times-v-sullivan professional-conduct rules-of-professional-conduct |
Does the actual malice test of New York Times v. Sullivan protect lawyers' First Amendment rights in disciplinary proceedings? |
| 23A386 |
Marylin Pierre, et al. v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-10-31 |
Presumed Complete |
actual-malice attorney-discipline first-amendment free-speech judicial-criticism new-york-times-v-sullivan |
Whether the First Amendment protects lawyers from disciplinary sanctions for criticizing judges under the actual malice standard established in New Yo… |
| 20-583 |
Mitzi Elaine Dailey v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline confidentiality confidentiality-breach due-process equal-protection judicial-bias mandamus-petition pro-bono |
Should the Maryland Court of Appeals have granted Petitioner's request for a hearing on her Petition for Writ of Mandamus |
| 20-5671 |
Michael Ward v. Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission |
Michigan |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection fees-and-costs indigent-litigant prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights |
Is Michigan's statute, MCL 600.2963(8) unconstitutional on its face and/or as applied to this petitioner, as violating the right of access to courts a… |
| 20-123 |
Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 28-usc-1450 5th-amendment constitutional-rights discovery-requests due-process federal-court federal-removal-law procedural-due-process removal-law state-court |
Whether pre-removal discovery requests are nullified upon removal to federal court |
| 19-6212 |
Melissa Edwards v. Attorney Grievance Commission |
Michigan |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
access-to-courts administrative-investigation attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process disability-rights due-process equal-protection government-transparency judicial-review judicial-transparency standing state-court-procedure |
Is it unconstitutional for a state court to deny relief without explaining why relief was denied? |
| 19-140 |
Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Rehearing |
appellate-jurisdiction attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-review remand remand-order removal standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the appellate court has jurisdiction to review the entire remand order or only the portion addressing particular issues |
| 18A1285 |
Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Presumed Complete |
28-usc-1447d appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split federal-jurisdiction remand-order |
Whether a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction to review an entire remand order under 28 U.S.C. §1447(d) or only a specific portion of that order |
| 18A1278 |
Melinda Maldonado v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
attorney-grievance disciplinary-proceedings due-process judicial-misconduct legal-ethics professional-reputation |
Whether the Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission violated an attorney's due process rights by engaging in allegedly politically motivated disciplina… |
| 18-1342 |
Andrew Ndubisi Ucheomumu v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
attorney-discipline brady-v-maryland in-re-ruffalo quasi-criminal willner-v-committee 14th-amendment attorney-disciplinary-proceeding attorney-discipline brady-disclosure confrontation confrontation-rights due-process in-re-ruffalo prosecutorial-misconduct willner-v-committee |
Whether the State of Maryland violated Petitioner's 14th Amendment due process rights |
| 18-822 |
Steven G. Cohen v. Grievance Administrator, Attorney Grievance Commission of Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-petition judicial-corruption judicial-misconduct petition petition-clause professional-ethics professional-misconduct rosa-parks-estate |
Whether the arbitrary, contradictory and fact-free proceedings conducted by the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board violated Petitioner's rights under … |
| 18-5843 |
Alexander Manjanja Chanthunya v. Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission |
Maryland |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline attorney-misconduct bar-counsel civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights cross-examination disciplinary-proceedings due-process fair-hearing judicial-review standing |
Whether Maryland Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's Petition |