| 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 … |
| 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 |
| 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… |
| 20A176 |
Albert M. Kun v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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| 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… |
| 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 |
| 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… |
| 19-194 |
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… |
| 18-6452 |
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… |