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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 …
25-5525 Teresa Lynette Bloodman v. Robert Brech, Executive Director, Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct Arkansas 2025-09-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline due-process fourteenth-amendment interim-suspension liberty-interest procedural-fairness I. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state supreme court to impose a imposes an interim suspension of an attorney '…
25-196 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 attorney-discipline reciprocal-discipline state-court-jurisdiction statutory-immunity supremacy-clause Under California 's State Bar Act as authoritively interpreted by California 's appellate courts, the State Bar, the California Supreme Court, and the…
24A1184 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2025-06-03 Presumed Complete attorney-discipline civil-rights-lawsuit ex-parte-young state-bar-act supremacy-clause williams-decision Whether the California State Bar Act violates the Supremacy Clause by immunizing defendants from federal civil rights lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. §1983 i…
24-1209 Daryll Boyd Jones v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-young judicial-bias Whether the Court of Appeals erred in severance of retrospective damages claims from prospective injunctive claims under Ex parte Young and whether sy…
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…
24-1009 Joseph D. Lento v. Pennsylvania Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2025-03-21 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline disciplinary-proceedings due-process judicial-fairness legal-ethics procedural-rights Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violated due process by denying an attorney the opportunity to rebut a disciplinary report containing alleged i…
24A769 Joseph D. Lento v. Pennsylvania Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2025-02-07 Presumed Complete attorney-discipline certiorari disciplinary-proceeding due-process judicial-review supreme-court-procedure Whether a state disciplinary proceeding against an attorney violates due process protections when challenging the procedural fairness of the disciplin…
24A702 Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. State Bar of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-16 Presumed Complete attorney-discipline civil-liberties constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech state-bar Whether a state bar association can impose disciplinary sanctions on attorneys for protected First Amendment speech without violating their constituti…
24A604 Rahul Dev Manchanda v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department New York 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance-committee Whether a state attorney grievance committee's disciplinary proceedings against an attorney violate the First Amendment right to free speech and due p…
24-625 Elana Thibault v. State Bar of California California 2024-12-06 Denied Response Waived 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 Response WaivedIFP 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
24-251 Jack Jordan v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied attorney-discipline constitutional-delegation due-process first-amendment judicial-misconduct professional-conduct Whether the U.S. Constitution permits federal courts to discipline an attorney for challenging judicial misconduct without providing specific standard…
24-5440 Edward Moses, Jr. v. Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel Louisiana 2024-09-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline confrontation-clause due-process judicial-procedure legal-ethics professional-misconduct Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court violated Edward Moses Jr.'s due process rights in suspending his law license without adequate confrontation
23-1274 Brian Philip Manookian v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2024-06-05 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech notice retaliation Does the disbarment of an attorney for truthful out-of-court statements about other attorneys violate the First Amendment?
23-745 In Re Henry L. Klein 2024-01-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-review attorney-discipline attorney-regulation axon-v-ftc constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure louisiana-supreme-court sec-v-cochran supremacy-clause Did the Louisiana Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause by denying Petitioner's request to enforce Axon v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran as the supreme …
23-657 Michelle MacDonald v. Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility Minnesota 2023-12-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline attorney-speech client-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-power judicial-discipline judicial-integrity professional-conduct Whether a free speech right to impugn judicial integrity must be recognized for attorneys in order to reclaim their First Amendment Rights in invoking…
23A520 Andrew U. D. Straw v. Indiana Indiana 2023-12-07 Presumed Complete attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process law-license supreme-court takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause permits compensation when a state supreme court suspends a law license without good cause or due process
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
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…
22-1227 Nejla K. Lane v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission Illinois 2023-06-21 Denied Response Waived attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech illinois-constitution professional-conduct Whether the Hearing Board's and the Review Board's Recommendation and Report violated Petitioner's due-process rights
22-7545 Maude Laroche-St. Fleur v. Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction Whether a State court is permitted to issue decisions in conflict with Supreme Court precedents and violate fundamental rights under the Fourteenth Am…
22-1061 Jonathan B. Andry v. Lawyer Disciplinary Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-review attorney-discipline disciplinary-proceedings district-court due-process fifth-circuit legal-rationale quasi-criminal quasicriminal-proceedings Does an appellate court violate an attorney's right to due process of law when it upholds a disciplinary violation in a quasicriminal proceeding on gr…
22-619 In Re Larry E. Klayman 2023-01-06 Denied Relisted (2) attorney-discipline bar-discipline civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process legal-ethics legal-suspension professional-conduct temporary-suspension time-served writ-of-mandamus Did the District of Columbia Court of Appeals err in suspending Larry Klayman from the practice of law?
22-6339 Derek James Jones v. State Bar of California California 2022-12-19 Denied IFP 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
21-1379 Tim Osicka v. Office of Lawyer Regulation Seventh Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied attorney-disciplinary-proceeding attorney-discipline bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge civil-procedure cost-assessment costs-and-fees government-reimbursement lawyer-regulation nondischargeable-debt pecuniary-loss Did the Court err in determining that an assessment for costs and fees for the Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) in an administrative attorn…
21-1366 Ashwani Sheoran v. Walmart Stores East, LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-discipline attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-procedure notice-requirements rule-11 show-cause-order Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 11 requires the specific offending statements to be listed in the show cause order
21-7378 Andrew Long v. Oregon State Bar Oregon 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline bribery disbarment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indefinite-suspension state-attorney-discipline state-bar-misconduct witness-bribery Did the Oregon Supreme Court violate Long's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process prior to deprivation of his property interest
21-1180 Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor Eighth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response Waived attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure discovery due-process judicial-misconduct legal-ethics standing whether-a-federal-court-may-disbar-an-attorney
21-824 Cecelia F. Abadie v. Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board Louisiana 2021-12-03 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech freedom-of-speech judicial-misconduct legal-paternity Whether suspending respondent for a year and a day, after ignoring evidence that supported her allegation, violated due-process, free-speech
21-730 'Lanre O. Amu v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission Illinois 2021-11-17 Denied attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing freedom-of-press freedom-of-speech judicial-misconduct racial-discrimination Whether the Illinois Supreme Court Justices are condoning racism and discrimination against the Petitioner
21-283 In Re Roland N. Patterson 2021-08-27 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process reinstatement separation-of-powers substantive-due-process Whether Petitioner suffered the violation of his Constitutional Rights to Procedural Due Process
20-1795 Gregory Melvin Haynes v. State Bar of California California 2021-06-24 Denied Response Waived 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, …
20-1711 Kevin K. Tung v. Janet Yijuan Fou New Jersey 2021-06-11 Denied attorney-discipline attorney-ethics due-process equal-protection fraud-on-the-court hostile-work-environment intervention judicial-criticism judicial-misconduct professional-reputation Whether the denial of a motion to intervene violated the petitioner's due process rights
20-1712 Charles Paul-Thomas Phoenix v. The Florida Bar Florida 2021-06-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-disciplinary-proceeding attorney-discipline charge-not-in-original closing-argument due-process grievance-committee in-re-ruffalo probable-cause quasicriminal-nature Whether a charge, in a state bar attorney disciplinary proceeding for which the attorney grievance committee had determined there was no probable caus…
20-1506 Jeffrey G. Thomas v. State Bar of California California 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived 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
20-1457 Adrian Moon v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2021-04-16 Denied attorney-discipline bar-association civil-rights compelled-speech free-speech mandatory-bar Whether the California State Bar's mandatory bar membership and dues requirements violate the First Amendment rights of attorneys
20-874 David Lee Phillips v. State Bar of Nevada Nevada 2020-12-31 Denied african-american attorney-discipline constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process nevada-supreme-court procedural-fairness professional-conduct suspension withdrawal Was Petitioner denied constitutional procedural due process
20-6546 John C. Nimmer v. Michael G. Heavican, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities rooker-feldman separation-of-powers standing Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar a 42 USC 1983 claim when a facial challenge is pled?
20-757 Timothy L. Ashford v. Office for Counsel for Discipline, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-discipline bad-faith-exception civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity race racial-discrimination standing younger-abstention Whether the federal court should abstain in an attorney disciplinary action
20-583 Mitzi Elaine Dailey v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2020-11-03 Denied Response Waived 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
20-530 Harold H. Burbank, II v. Connecticut Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel Connecticut 2020-10-21 Denied attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech petition petition-rights political-speech Did the First Amendment and Connecticut Constitution preclude Connecticut from reciprocal attorney discipline
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…
19-8270 Earl Mayberry Johnson, Jr. v. The Florida Bar Florida 2020-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment attorney-discipline confrontation-clause disbarment due-process equal-protection florida-bar service-of-process Whether the State of Florida violated the Petitioner's 14th-Amendment-due-process, 14th-Amendment-equal-protection, Confrontation-Clause, service-of-p…
19-1193 Kristin D. Wilkinson v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline of the State Bar of Texas Texas 2020-04-02 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment attorney-discipline confidentiality confidentiality-statutes disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-ruffalo professional-rights property-rights Does the standard for assessing the protection of Due Process Clause rights of lawyers in disciplinary proceedings announced in Jn re Ruffalo, fail to…
19-813 Loring Edwin Justice v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2019-12-27 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-law attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment professional-conduct quasi-criminal self-incrimination Whether Tennessee violated the self-incrimination clause when it forced Justice to testify or suffer adverse inferences costing him his Tennessee law …
19-6917 In Re Sherri Jefferson 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment professional-conduct self-incrimination Whether the order of disbarment should be reversed, remanded, or vacated and set aside for violation of the Due Process and Self-Incrimination Clause …
19-6916 Sherri Jefferson v. Supreme Court of Georgia Georgia 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP attorney-discipline disbarment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent professional-responsibility self-incrimination Does this Court's opinion in Spevack v. Klein, 385 U.S. 511 (1967), In re Ruffalo, 390 U.S. 544 (1968), and North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v…
19-681 Andrew W. Shalaby v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-procedure civil-rights disbarment due-process free-speech judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-recusal professional-conduct recusal standing Whether a Federal Court can deny an attorney admission to the bar for allegedly impugning the integrity of a judge in violation of ABA Model Rule 8.2(…
19-140 Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2019-07-30 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) 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
18-9587 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-06-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment administrative-suspension attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial legal-ethics professional-conduct property-rights we-the-people Can license to practice law be suspended only on the basis of remaining silent without considering the merits of alleged violation?
18-1399 Geoffrey Parker Damon v. Cincinnati Bar Association Ohio 2019-05-06 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment-14th-amendment attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violation disbarment disciplinary-process disparate-treatment due-process equal-protection legal-profession race-discrimination racial-discrimination reinstatement reverse-discrimination reverse-race-discrimination Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio issued an order of permanent disbarment against Petitioner as a result of reverse race discrimination against Caucas…
18-1342 Andrew Ndubisi Ucheomumu v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2019-04-25 Denied Response Waived 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
18-7729 Earnest S. Harris v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 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…
18-7708 Philip Eberhard Koebel v. Stevan Chandler, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 11-usc-109e attorney-discipline automatic-stay bad-faith bankruptcy-code chapter-13 debtor-attorney-discipline debtor-eligibility dismissal homestead-exemption Whether a bankruptcy court contravenes the Bankruptcy Code
18-829 John H. Davis v. Jeanne W. Anderson, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-discipline attorney-removal civil-procedure civil-rights court-rules due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-ethics presumptive-reasonableness seventh-circuit supervisory-power Whether the Seventh Circuit's removal of an attorney's name from the roll of attorneys is presumptively reasonable without due process, record support…
18-822 Steven G. Cohen v. Grievance Administrator, Attorney Grievance Commission of Michigan Michigan 2018-12-28 Denied Response Waived 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 …
18-6452 Alan Bartlett v. State Bar of California, et al. California 2018-10-29 Denied IFP 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
18-438 Carllene M. Placide v. Supreme Court of Washington, et al. Washington 2018-10-05 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline bar-discipline constitutional-rights due-process due-process,civil-rights,equal-protection,legal-pr equal-protection legal-ethics legal-practice legal-procedure procedural-fairness racial-discrimination Whether an attorney can be deprived of his/her constitutionally protected right to practice law
18-322 Steven A. Miner v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission Illinois 2018-09-12 Denied attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline burden-of-proof clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process due-process-clause first-amendment misappropriation personal-relationships private-relationships professional-misconduct Whether the burden of proof was improperly shifted to the attorney, in violation of the Due Process Clause, by finding dishonesty based on lack of rec…
18-5843 Alexander Manjanja Chanthunya v. Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission Maryland 2018-08-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 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
18-226 Eric G. Zahnd v. Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of Missouri Missouri 2018-08-22 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived attorney-discipline attorney-ethics criminal-case due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-transparency professional-conduct prosecutorial-speech public-record public-records Whether an attorney may be disciplined for telling the truth about information in the public record in a news release after a criminal case has been a…
18-104 Robert Philip Tuerk v. The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection freedom-of-travel freedom-to-travel prior-restraint reciprocal-discipline Whether reciprocal upon reciprocal discipline of disbarment of an attorney by his home state that originally disciplined him for one (1) year and a da…