attorney-liability
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-8 | John Meyer v. John Pellegrin | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | attorney-liability breach-of-contract civil-procedure criminal-defense criminal-defense-attorney exoneration legal-malpractice post-conviction-relief | Whether a criminal defense lawyer should be held responsible for his actions and inactions even if his client is guilty of a lesser offense | |
| 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… |
| 23-353 | John Jones v. Lyudmyla Pyankovska | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-liability child-custody custody-proceeding first-amendment omnibus-crime-control omnibus-crime-control-and-safe-streets-act recording-liability recordings right-to-petition title-iii | Does the First Amendment right to petition the government extend to insulate an attorney from liability under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Stree… |
| 23A107 | Matthew Edwin Gronda, et al. v. Title Check, LLC | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-07 | Presumed Complete | 28-u-s-c-section-1927 attorney-liability bad-faith first-impression frivolous-claims sanctions-on-counsel | Whether sanctions under 28 U.S.C. § 1927 may be imposed on trial counsel for advancing a novel legal theory in a case of first impression without evid… |