| 25-5145 |
Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-ethics conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
This is a death penalty case from Alabama in which the following occurred:
(1) the defense attorney was being paid in substantial part by the defenda… |
| 24-5483 |
Spyros Panos v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-ethics conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard |
Whether an unwaivable conflict arises when counsel and client are implicated in the same crime, and if so, what procedural and substantive standards a… |
| 23-940 |
Kenneth James Rosellini v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics |
New Jersey |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
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attorney-ethics due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court professional-misconduct res-judicata |
Can an attorney be suspended from the practice of law for failure to obey tribunal rules when asserting the orders are unconstitutional? |
| 23-497 |
L. Lin Wood v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-ethics attorney-liability civil-procedure due-process federal-civil-procedure frivolous-pleading of-counsel rule-11 rule-11-sanctions safe-harbor-period sanctions standing |
Whether an attorney whose name is designated as 'Of Counsel' on the signature page of a frivolous pleading that the attorney did not sign, file, submi… |
| 21-547 |
Kevin Tung v. Superior Court of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-ethics civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young federal-law judiciary sovereign-immunity |
Whether the claims of an Officer of the Court with the New Jersey Judiciary System are barred by the Eleventh Amendment when the Officer of the Court'… |
| 20-1711 |
Kevin K. Tung v. Janet Yijuan Fou |
New Jersey |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
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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 |
| 20-6295 |
Donna Raively v. Thomas A. Whelihan |
New Jersey |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
attorney-ethics attorney-misconduct case-conflict civil-procedure client-representation client-trust fiduciary-duty legal-ethics legal-malpractice professional-misconduct standing |
Whether an attorney is held to a certain standard of fiduciary-duty,attorney-misconduct,client-trust,legal-ethics,civil-procedure,standing |
| 19-858 |
GemCap Lending I, LLC v. Quarles & Brady, LLP, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
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attorney-ethics civil-procedure commercial-loan commercial-transactions duty-of-candor fraud fraud-representation legal-misrepresentation professional-responsibility summary-judgment |
When an attorney's false and misleading representations in a commercial loan application can lead to summary judgment in the attorney's favor despite … |
| 19-6937 |
Scherrieto Little v. Janis Nau, as Administrator |
California |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-power attorney-ethics civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-fraud fraud judicial-misconduct legal-ethics probate probate-law rule-8.4 |
When a violation of CA Rule 8.4 (c) occur, should the heir's of an estate have to pay for the fraud, corruption, and lie's that have been committed ag… |
| 19-6814 |
Issac Efren Jimenez v. California |
California |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-privilege attorney-ethics attorney-representation conflict-of-interest criminal-law criminal-procedure ethics former-client legal-ethics leniency prosecutorial-discretion witness-testimony |
Whether an attorney in a criminal case may subsequently represent a client who seeks leniency in exchange for testimony in a pending case against that… |
| 18-1406 |
Kristin Roebuck Bethell v. Bryan Stephens, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-ethics attorney-sanctions civil-rights client-advocacy client-representation conflict-of-laws due-process free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions legal-ethics legal-ethics-and-professional-responsibility professional-conduct sanctions standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether counsel Roebuck Bethell's Petition for Writ of Certiorari should be granted after she was sanctioned by the Arizona courts for: (1) believing … |
| 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… |