legal-practice
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A648 | Veltor Underground, LLC v. Kelly Loeffler, Administrator, Small Business Administration, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-03 | Application | academic-commitments certiorari-extension legal-practice professional-obligations supreme-court-clinic time-extension | Whether a law school Supreme Court clinic and its director can be granted an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari based on academic and… | |
| 25A189 | Mawule Tepe v. Whirlpool Corporation, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Presumed Complete | due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-practice removal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment state-court-removal | Whether federal district courts may improperly remove state court cases when attorneys are not admitted to practice in that federal district court and… | |
| 24-6183 | Robert M. Joost v. Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners | Massachusetts | 2024-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bar-admission constitutional-rights legal-education legal-practice occupational-freedom professional-qualification | Whether the Massachusetts bar's educational requirements violate a legal practitioner's constitutional rights by preventing admission based on extensi… |
| 24-5675 | Lenore Albert v. Roxanne Gonzalez, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-suspension district-court legal-practice local-rules rules-enabling-act state-bar | Whether a United States District Court can automatically suspend an attorney's membership to practice law based on a State Bar suspension, and whether… |
| 24A93 | Elana Thibault v. State Bar of California | California | 2024-07-25 | Presumed Complete | attorney-suspension due-process legal-practice probation-conditions professional-misconduct state-bar-discipline | Whether a state bar court's disciplinary order suspending an attorney from practice for professional misconduct violates due process or constitutes an… | |
| 23A413 | JDH Pacific, Inc. v. Precision-Hayes International, Inc. | Texas | 2023-11-08 | Presumed Complete | counsel-of-record family-hardship legal-practice petition-for-certiorari supreme-court time-extension | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari based on personal family circumstances | |
| 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… | |
| 21-1345 | Jeffrey B. C. Moorhead v. Glenda Lake, Clerk, District Court of the Virgin Islands, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | 28-usc-1291 28-usc-47 appellate-review district-court judicial-bias judicial-procedure lawyer-suspension legal-practice mandamus-relief notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation | Does a lawyer have the statutory right to appeal a final order suspending the lawyer from the practice of law? | |
| 18-438 | Carllene M. Placide v. Supreme Court of Washington, et al. | Washington | 2018-10-05 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-client-relationship attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline bar-discipline constitutional-rights due-process due-process,civil-rights,equal-protection,legal-pr equal-protection legal-ethics legal-practice legal-procedure procedural-fairness racial-discrimination | Whether an attorney can be deprived of his/her constitutionally protected right to practice law |