judicial-discipline

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-614 Michael Prete v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2024-12-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-discipline professional-conduct Did the Rhode Island Supreme Court violate the First Amendment, Due Process, and Equal Protection rights of an attorney by disciplining and stripping …
23-747 Marylin Pierre v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2024-01-10 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline legal-ethics new-york-times-v-sullivan professional-conduct rules-of-professional-conduct Does the actual malice test of New York Times v. Sullivan protect lawyers' First Amendment rights in disciplinary proceedings?
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…
21-753 Trina L. Janura v. John J. Janura, Jr. West Virginia 2021-11-19 Denied 14th-amendment conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-discipline judicial-ethics judicial-investigation judicial-misconduct recusal Did the non-disclosure and non-recusal from either the circuit court or the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals both violate the petitioner's right…
21-227 Venus Y. Springs v. North Carolina State Bar North Carolina 2021-08-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-litigation due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline north-carolina standing Whether the posting of a deposition video to educate pro se litigants is protected by the First Amendment
20-677 John T. Laettner v. California Commission on Judicial Performance California 2020-11-17 Denied Response Waived due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline judicial-performance notice rebuttal-evidence right-to-be-heard speech-restraint Whether it is constitutional under the 1st, 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments for a judicial disciplinary commission to remove a judge based on the manner…
19-6695 Ilana Rigwan v. Jordan Lee Neus Florida 2019-11-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-procedure court-records docket-alteration evidence-tampering judicial-accountability judicial-discipline judicial-ethics judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-transparency legal-accountability public-trust Should Judges be allowed to alter dockets and go unpunished?