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56 results for “State Bar of California”

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25A197 Gregory Melvin Haynes v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete civil-procedure disqualification fraud-on-court judgment-renewal judicial-bias rule-60 Whether a district court judge's alleged bias and a party's claim of fraud on the court warrant vacating a final judgment under Federal Rule of Civil …
25-192 Arthur Edward Ezor v. State Bar of California California 2025-08-18 Denied california-law disbarment legal-review petition-of-review supreme-court-of-california 1. Should the Supreme Court of California have granted the Petition of Review? 2. Should the California Disbarment Order against Ezor be reversed?
24-6921 Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-03 Denied dismissal-with-prejudice federal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge rule-12b1 sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether sovereign immunity implicates subject-matter jurisdiction such that it may be resolved through factual challenges under Federal Rule of Civil …
24-1025 Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. State Bar of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied circuit-split constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-association legal-profession mandatory-bar Whether compelled membership in a bar association that engages in nongermane activities is necessarily unconstitutional and whether the Court should r…
24-625 Elana Thibault v. State Bar of California California 2024-12-06 Denied attorney-discipline due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-misconduct property-interest state-bar Does the suspension from practice of law and imposition of monetary sanctions by methods that deviate from the prescribed means and offend the sense o…
24-5498 Lenore Luann Albert v. State Bar of California California 2024-09-10 Denied attorney-discipline disbarment due-process federal-court-practice fourteenth-amendment state-bar-regulation Whether California State Bar can regulate the practice of law in federal court and impose disbarment without due process
24-5423 Cessaly Denise Hutchinson v. State Bar of California California 2024-08-29 Denied civil-rights corporate-liability legal-ethics medical-malpractice racial-discrimination settlement-dispute Whether a mesothelioma plaintiff alleges corporate misconduct and legal malpractice involving racial targeting and settlement manipulation
24-5267 Richard George Baxter v. State Bar of California California 2024-08-08 Denied content-based-restriction embezzlement first-amendment fraud-regulation mortgage-fraud strict-scrutiny Whether a California law restricting fraud, embezzlement, and forgery proceedings is subject to strict scrutiny under the First Amendment
24A93 Elana Thibault v. State Bar of California California 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete attorney-suspension due-process legal-practice probation-conditions professional-misconduct state-bar-discipline Whether a state bar court's disciplinary order suspending an attorney from practice for professional misconduct violates due process or constitutes an…
24-36 Spencer Freeman Smith v. State Bar of California California 2024-07-15 Denied attorney-suspension civil-rights constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process ex-parte-statements hearing-delay notice state-bar-discipline whistleblower due-process-clause
23-7189 A. R. P. v. Florida Florida 2024-04-10 Denied baker-act civil-commitment constitutional-rights due-process equal-access-to-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mandamus representation Did Florida's Supreme Court err in denying the application for a writ of habeas corpus and/or mandamus without first dealing with the constitutional i…
23-6922 Benjamin Kohn v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied administrative-law arms-of-the-state bar-admission civil-rights eleventh-amendment en-banc judicial-review ninth-circuit pro-bono-counsel sovereign-immunity state-university Whether sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment extends to a state university
23-865 Dale Wendall Laue v. State Bar of California California 2024-02-12 Denied civil-rights diversity-equity-inclusion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest licensing moral-character standing state-bar-admission Whether admission to a State Bar constitutes a liberty interest
23-790 Matthew Flinders v. State Bar of California California 2024-01-23 Denied 11th-amendment age-discrimination bar-admission due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection privileges-and-immunities sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity Whether the State Supreme Court and State Bar's denial of admission based on age violated Petitioner's rights to due process, equal protection, and hi…
23A617 Yi Tai Shao v. John Roberts, Jr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete bar-license child-custody due-process judicial-conspiracy procedural-irregularity void-order Whether due process requires vacating a state bar license suspension based on a purported order lacking notice, hearing, and jurisdictional validity
23A505 Dale Wendall Laue v. State Bar of California California 2023-12-05 Presumed Complete attorney-discipline due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-review state-bar-court Whether a state bar court's disciplinary decision against an attorney violates due process or First Amendment rights of free speech
22-1056 Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. State Bar of California California 2023-05-01 Denied administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process expressive-association free-speech petitioning state-bar-court Whether the Final Decision of a State Court Denying Review of the Decision of an Administrative Agency Recommending Disbarment, Causes an Interlocutor…
22-6339 Derek James Jones v. State Bar of California California 2022-12-19 Denied attorney-discipline brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment giglio-v-united-states presumption-of-innocence state-bar-court willner-v-committee-on-character-and-fitness Whether the State of California violated Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process
22-95 Schuyler File v. Margaret Hickey, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied abood-v-detroit civil-rights compelled-membership due-process first-amendment free-speech janus-precedent mandatory-bar scrutiny-standard standing union-shop Whether membership in a mandatory state bar is subject to heightened scrutiny under the First Amendment
21-6798 Daniel Everett v. Justices of the Supreme Court of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied administrative-law administrative-proceedings civil-rights disability due-process involuntary-inactive-status licensee-rights standing state-bar state-bar-court younger-abstention Whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies to a challenge against California State Bar rules which allow that agency to place licensees with phys…
21-974 Sylvia Borunda Firth, et al. v. Tony K. McDonald, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied administrative-agency civil-rights first-amendment free-speech free-speech-clause government-speech judicial-department keller-v-state-bar overrule-precedent state-bar Whether the State Bar of Texas qualifies as a government agency for purposes of the government speech doctrine
21-929 Marie Henry v. The Florida Bar, et al. Florida 2021-12-23 Denied bar-membership civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech integrated-bar judicial-ethics keller-v-state-bar-of-california standing Whether the Florida Bar's compulsory membership and dues violate the First Amendment right to refrain from subsidizing the organization's political or…
21-779 Mark E. Schell v. Richard Darby, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied bar-dues compulsory-fees constitutional-scrutiny exacting-scrutiny first-amendment ideological-speech mandatory-bar-dues political-speech union-fees Are mandatory bar dues that subsidize the political and ideological speech of bar associations subject to 'the same constitutional rule' of exacting F…
21-6305 Eric Volk v. State Bar of California California 2021-11-16 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence disciplinary-proceedings due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-representation professional-conduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Can The Spate bar of CAIIFOCWA cJos2 . a Complaint an my BHerreo Ms. Lance Brown, Where rules ef profcfsyone| Condect, dnd ng Ave proces Whrk Ve oat l…
21-5983 Jennifer L. Kammerer v. State Bar of California California 2021-10-15 Denied administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act disability-rights discrimination equal-protection mental-illness mental-illness-discrimination professional-license professional-licensing rehabilitation-program Does the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit punishing an individual for being mentally ill by revoking their professional license and denying th…
21-5630 Daniel Everett v. State Bar of California California 2021-09-09 Denied administrative-law constitutional-rights disability disability-inactive-status due-process involuntary-inactive-status medical-records postdeprivation-hearing predeprivation-hearing state-bar state-bar-rules Is constitutional due process of law violated by State Bar rules that allow the agency to enroll licensees with disabilities on involuntary inactive s…
21-5385 Albert M. Kun v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fine fifth-amendment fourth-amendment state-bar timbs-standard timbs-v-indiana Whether the approximately $40,000 fine assessed by the State Bar is an excessive fine under Timbs v. Indiana 586 U.S.—(2019) for a $460-financial viol…
21-5020 Michael Bernard Potere v. State Bar of California California 2021-07-07 Denied bar-admission constitutional-rights disbarment due-process equal-protection federal-rights legal-procedure professional-conduct professional-discipline state-bar Whether the State Bar Court of California violated petitioner's constitutional and federal legal rights and erred in recommending disbarment
20A176 Albert M. Kun v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-25 Presumed Complete None
20-1795 Gregory Melvin Haynes v. State Bar of California California 2021-06-24 Denied attorney-discipline california-supreme-court clear-and-convincing-standard due-process reciprocal-discipline selling-v-radford summary-judgment Does the California Reciprocal attorney discipline statute—Business and profession code 6049.1 — violate the standard set forth in Selling v Radford, …
20-1678 Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. Oregon State Bar, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied attorney-regulation compelled-speech constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech keller-v-state-bar mandatory-dues political-speech public-sector-unions state-bar Is the statute that compels attorneys to subsidize Oregon State Bar's political and ideological speech subject to 'exacting' scrutiny?
20-1527 Michelle Stopyra Yaney v. State Bar of California California 2021-05-03 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process effective-communication government-agency mental-disability reasonable-accommodation reasonable-modification Is communication to facilitate understanding regarding procedure by one who suffers from a mental disability, such as anxiety disorder, a statutory re…
20-1520 Diane Gruber, et al. v. Oregon State Bar, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-30 Denied bar-association compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment freedom-of-speech integrated-bar janus-v-afscme keller-v-state-bar legal-precedent mandatory-dues Whether compelled speech of attorneys unconstitutionally infringes upon their Freedom of Speech
20-1506 Jeffrey G. Thomas v. State Bar of California California 2021-04-28 Denied 14th-amendment attorney-discipline due-process personal-jurisdiction state-bar-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether discipline of an attorney by a state bar court is void due to lack of personal jurisdiction
20-7654 Alan Douglas v. State Bar of California California 2021-04-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice res-ipsa-loquitur standing Reverse and settle personal injury
20-1360 Scottlynn J. Hubbard v. State Bar of California California 2021-03-26 Denied advocacy-speech false-speech first-amendment free-speech harmless-speech mandatory-bar Whether under the First Amendment a mandatory integrated state bar may punish advocacy speech it deems false but also expressly finds to be harmless?
20-1157 Michelle Stopyra Yaney v. Superior Court of California, Riverside County, et al. California 2021-02-23 Denied civil-rights covid-19 disability disability-rights due-process health-status judicial-discretion mortality-risk public-health standing writ-of-certiorari Whether a court has to consider a petitioner's health status or if they would have a higher rate of mortality if infected with COVID-19, prior to deny…
20-6520 Paul Viriyapanthu v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied 14th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration-immunity noerr-pennington sovereign-immunity spending-clause title-ii u.s.-v.-georgia Where Congress conditioned the ADA to states' receipt of funding, must a Title II plaintiff demonstrate a 14th Amendment violation under U.S. v. Georg…
20A77 Paul Viriyapanthu v. State Bar of California Ninth Circuit 2020-10-29 Presumed Complete None
20-519 State Bar of California, et al. v. Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied 11-usc-523(a)(7) attorney-discipline bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split federal-courts kelly-v-robinson public-protection statutory-interpretation Whether payments ordered by the California Supreme Court as a condition of an attorney's discipline, imposed to protect the public, are non-dischargea…
20-6081 Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied 11-usc-523 bankruptcy-discharge court-costs due-process equal-protection license-suspension professional-licensing state-bar-discipline statutory-interpretation Whether 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(7) bars a debtor from obtaining a discharge of State Bar disciplinary costs under Chapter 7
20-417 Sanjay Bhardwaj v. State Bar of California California 2020-10-01 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment forgery new-trial new-trial-motion standing state-bar trial-transcripts Can California State Bar Court consider trial transcripts which are not certified, are false and product of antecedent forgery after trial, for purpos…
20-5135 James Bowell v. State Bar of California California 2020-07-22 Denied 6th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-revocation parolee sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether a court-appointed attorney's refusal to present an issue on habeas where the court could impose no sentence other than the statutory maximum f…
19-1403 Michael H. Vartanian v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied ada-anti-retaliation ada-retaliation civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-profession reasonable-mistake reasonable-mistake-of-law standing Is opposition to a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) that turns upon a reasonable mistake of law protected conduct under the stat…
19-8434 Audrey Jean Ukkerd v. State Bar of California California 2020-05-12 Denied attorney-misconduct civil-rights due-process fraud legal-ethics medical-evaluation professional-responsibility settlement-conference workers-compensation Why did Attorney Michael Siegel state that the State Bar of California asserted certain claims in the complaint?
19-831 Adam Jarchow, et al. v. State Bar of Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied associational-rights compelled-association compelled-speech first-amendment integrated-bar janus-precedent political-speech state-bar Whether Lathrop and Keller should be overruled and 'integrated bar' arrangements like Wisconsin's invalidated under the First Amendment
19-6813 Lenore Luann Albert v. State Bar of California California 2019-12-03 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines legal-costs license license-suspension reinstatement state-bar state-bar-costs Whether the California State Bar's conditional suspension that conditions the time suspended to payment of State Bar costs and other amounts ordered d…
19-542 Robert L. Jarrett, Jr. v. State Bar of California California 2019-10-25 Denied appellate-jurisdiction attorney-misconduct civil-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction legislative-intent precedent recusal-standards standing supreme-court-review vexatious-litigant How does this Court resolve the absence of appellate jurisdiction in the proceedings in which the attorney misconduct is alleged to have occurred, eve…
19-6024 Kenneth Allen Rogers v. California California 2019-09-24 Denied attorney-client-relationship civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fiduciary-duty legal-representation pre-trial-motion property-rights retainer-fee sixth-amendment Whether the State of California's denial of legal representation at a pre-trial motion deprived the petitioner of a fundamental right
19-194 Daniel Delacruz, Sr. v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine racial-discrimination rooker-feldman-doctrine Does a dismissal of claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and First Amendment rights under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine violate the equal prote…
18-7911 Albert Miklos Kun v. State Bar of California California 2019-02-12 Denied 11th-amendment 14th-amendment bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption federalism fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-bar Whether petitioner's right to protection by the Eq Whether petitioner's rights protected by the Due P Whether the California Supreme Court may order pay Whether California waived its sovereign immunity to the Bankruptcy Clause
18-7729 Earnest S. Harris v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied attorney-discipline civil-rights court-rules disbarment due-process election-law equal-protection habeas-corpus incarceration professional-conduct suspension voting voting-rights Is the State of California's and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's involation of the U.S. Constitution's Amendment 3 by pr…
18-7584 Pamela Marberry v. State Bar of California California 2019-01-25 Denied ada civil-procedure civil-rights disability due-process employment equal-protection reasonable-accommodation standing takings Whether the state's denial of petitioner's request for a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act violated petitioner's cons…
18-6452 Alan Bartlett v. State Bar of California, et al. California 2018-10-29 Denied access-to-courts attorney-discipline bar-association civil-rights compelled-speech due-process free-speech mandatory-bar professional-conduct standing Whether the State Bar of California deprived the petitioner of due process by failing to investigate his complaints against attorneys
18-509 Charles G. Kinney v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied 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 Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in dismissing multiple appeals by the petitioner and using 'vexatious litigant' and 'puppet' labels to…
17-5004 Lori Jo Sklar v. State Bar of California California 2017-06-27 Denied None