attorney-conduct
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A540 | Andrew Parker, et al. v. Bill Gates, as a Member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-10 | Application | attorney-conduct due-process election-litigation first-amendment rule-11 sanctions | Whether the First Amendment and due process protections limit a federal court's ability to impose sanctions on attorneys for filing election-related l… | |
| 25A363 | Teresa Maria Harmon v. Louis I. Waterman, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-29 | Presumed Complete | americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-conduct disability-discrimination legal-advocacy pro-se-litigant reasonable-accommodation | Whether an attorney's advocacy in opposing disability accommodations can constitute discrimination or retaliation under the Americans with Disabilitie… | |
| 24-1283 | Jack R. T. Jordan v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-conduct disbarment due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-misconduct | Whether the U.S. Constitution delegated power to federal courts to disbar an attorney for statements in court filings challenging judicial misconduct |
| 24-233 | Johnmack Cohen v. Derek Smith Law Group, PLLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-08-30 | Denied | attorney-conduct bad-faith civil-procedure inherent-powers rule-11 sanctions | Whether a court can use the implicit Rule 11(b) certification of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that automatically attaches to all attorneys' pa… | |
| 23-1192 | Christine Mire v. University Hospital & Clinics, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-conduct civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment estoppel excessive-fines first-amendment free-speech punitive-sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the lower courts' imposition of punitive sanctions violates Petitioner's rights under the First and/or Eighth Amendments |
| 23-7322 | Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas | Texas | 2024-04-26 | Denied | IFP | attorney-conduct capital-appointments capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pecuniary-incentive sixth-amendment state-statute | Whether a state statute that makes an attorney ineligible for future capital appointments if found to be ineffective creates a pecuniary incentive for… |
| 23A68 | Mark Barinholtz v. HomeAdvisor, Inc., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Presumed Complete | attorney-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions prior-restraint | Whether sanctions imposed by a federal district court against an attorney for criticism of judicial conduct violate the First Amendment and Due Proces… | |
| 22-5257 | Daryl Stephen v. New York | New York | 2022-08-02 | Denied | IFP | attorney-conduct attorney-misconduct civil-procedure damages legal-ethics legal-malpractice professional-responsibility professional-standards standing tort-law | Whether the petitioner's attorney committed legal malpractice by contravening the law |
| 21-1129 | Wen-Ting Zheng-Smith v. Nassau Health Care Corporation, dba NUHealth System, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Response Waived | academic-reviews attorney attorney-conduct civil-procedure court-discretion evidence evidence-submission government-findings judicial-procedure legal-evidence witness-statements witness-testimony | Can evidence presented by defendant's attorney on behalf of plaintiff be updated to include missing information? |
| 21-230 | William Herman Viehweg v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | attorney-conduct bordenkircher-v-hayes civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court disqualification due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality legal-privilege pro-se-representation | Whether separate attorneys' representing a defendant corporation and attorneys' representing a non-party key witness, mutual claim of a protective leg… | |
| 20-5541 | Betsy Sachs v. Bank of America, N.A. | First Circuit | 2020-08-31 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | arbitration attorney-conduct civil-rights debt-collection due-process fdcpa foreclosure judicial-procedure manifest-disregard | Whether the definition of a 'debt collector' under the FDCPA includes attorneys who select non-judicial foreclosure |
| 18-644 | David Carl Cottingham v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. | Washington | 2018-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-conduct bar-discipline due-process first-amendment objective-analysis petitioning petitioning-rights pro-se-representation professional-discipline regulatory-approval split state-court strict-scrutiny | Should this court resolve the split in state court responses to this court's prescribed objective analysis protecting first amendment petitioning as d… |