lawyer-discipline

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-743 Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2025-12-22 Pending constitutional-rights disbarment due-process judicial-procedure lawyer-discipline legal-ethics 1. Whether the court that has jurisdiction over lawyer disciplinary matters can issue orders disbarring an attorney without first addressing cited, un…
25-557 Donald T. Trinen v. Supreme Court of Colorado Colorado 2025-11-06 Denied Response Waived cle-compliance due-process equal-protection judicial-review lawyer-discipline suspension-order Diversity, equity, and inclusion ("DEI ") continuing legal education ("cle") is required for Colorado lawyers. Attorney petitioner Donald Trinen ("Tri…
23-261 Henry L. Klein v. Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel Louisiana 2023-09-18 Denied administrative-agency administrative-procedure axon-enterprise-v-ftc constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review lawyer-discipline meaningful-judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct sec-v-cochran Did Louisiana ODC violate Axon Enterprise v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran principles by having a single deputy assume all prosecutorial and adjudicatory rol…
23A96 Henry Klein v. Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel Louisiana 2023-08-01 Presumed Complete administrative-adjudication appointments-clause due-process lawyer-discipline non-article-iii-officers separation-of-functions Whether a state agency that combines prosecutorial and adjudicatory functions within a single entity, without meaningful separation of those functions…
22-159 Steven Pascale v. RPI Company California 2022-08-19 Denied civil-procedure concealment constitutional-rights disbarment discovery due-process federal-statutes lawyer-discipline legal-ethics legal-practice oath-of-office professional-misconduct Whether the district court erred in its August 3, 2021 ruling by closing discovery on July 20, 2020 and concealing the plaintiffs' case information pr…
21-1343 Victor R. Marshall v. Supreme Court of New Mexico New Mexico 2022-04-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal lawyer-discipline legal-ethics professional-conduct standing Does the First Amendment permit a state to suspend a lawyer from practice indefinitely because it found statements in a motion, in which the lawyer so…
20-7905 Christopher K. Skagen v. Oregon State Bar Oregon 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-privacy constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-standard lawyer-discipline procedural-due-process substantive-due-process Question not identified
20-7557 Wendy Alison Nora v. Office of Lawyer Regulation Wisconsin 2021-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding lawyer-discipline mortgage-foreclosure petition standing Whether Petitioner was denied procedural due process in the lawyer disciplinary proceeding
20-1274 Richard G. Wern v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct South Carolina 2021-03-15 Denied Response Waived disciplinary-counsel due-process lawyer-discipline legal-ethics professional-conduct public-protection punitive sanction supreme-court unannounced-standard Did the South Carolina Supreme Court deny Petitioner Richard G. Wern of due process of law
18-538 Wendy A. Nora v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation Wisconsin 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process due-process-clause exculpatory-evidence fair-hearing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discipline petition-for-redress petition-rights procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a lawyer can be disciplined based on evidence known by the state to be false and when the state suppresses exculpatory evidence