ethics-violation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6269 Yavonne Hand v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-rights criminal-conduct declaratory-judgment due-process ethics-violation government-misconduct public-officials standing Right to a fair administrative hearing
22-964 Kenneth Allen Pruitt v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge corruption default-judgment due-process ethics-violation government-corruption standing standing-doctrine ultra-vires uncac Are 'Pruitt-type' complaints of corrupt acts by ultra vires actors a special species of complaints that enable a lower hurdle standing?
19-5437 Ekaterini Alexopoulos v. Steven Goldsmith, P.A., et al. Florida 2019-08-02 Denied IFP district-court-error duty-to-control duty-to-control-third-person ethics-violation expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence legal-malpractice rule-702 special-relation standard-of-care Whether the District Court erred in disallowing plaintiff's expert witness testimony regarding ethics violations and its irrelevance to this case whic…