| 25-6525 |
Bryant Calloway v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2026-01-08 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure legal-ethics model-rules professional-conduct prosecutorial-ethics sanctions |
Whether sanctions are applicable against a prosecutor for violating the Model Rules of Professional Conduct in criminal proceedings |
| 25-5975 |
Thiago de Sousa Prado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-disqualification conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process professional-conduct prosecutorial-ethics |
Does the Due Process Clause permit a United States Attorney's Office to prosecute a criminal defendant when the Acting U.S. Attorney previously served… |
| 24-1271 |
Malik Leigh v. State Bar of Florida |
Florida |
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment professional-conduct racial-discrimination |
Whether disciplining or disbarring a civil rights attorney for speech critical of judicial bias and racial injustice violates the First Amendment, and… |
| 24-1010 |
Raphael Weitzman v. Committee on Grievances for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment professional-conduct |
Whether the lower Court violated attorney's rights as to Due Process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and Equal Protection under the Fourteen… |
| 24-920 |
Keith Pardue, Vice President, Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, et al. v. Ronald S. Hines |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
constitutional-law first-amendment heightened-scrutiny professional-conduct speech-regulation veterinary-medicine |
Whether professional conduct regulations that incidentally burden speech are subject to heightened First Amendment scrutiny and whether Texas's physic… |
| 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 … |
| 24-251 |
Jack Jordan v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
|
attorney-discipline constitutional-delegation due-process first-amendment judicial-misconduct professional-conduct |
Whether the U.S. Constitution permits federal courts to discipline an attorney for challenging judicial misconduct without providing specific standard… |
| 24-33 |
Reuben Neff v. Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board |
Iowa |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-disciplinary-rules attorney-speech civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech professional-conduct sexual-harassment workplace-speech |
First Amendment-protection |
| 24-31 |
Michael J. Libman, et al. v. Antwon Jones, et al. |
California |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
|
ability-to-pay attorney-fees disgorgement eighth-amendment excessive-fines professional-conduct proportionality-test |
Does the court-ordered disgorgement of attorney fees for violation of state rules of professional conduct fall under the 'excessive fines' clause of t… |
| 23A1044 |
Michael J. Libman, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2024-05-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-fees disgorgement eighth-amendment ex-post-facto excessive-fines professional-conduct |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state court from disgorging an attorney's fees without finding harm to clients or assessing the attorney's ab… |
| 23-6861 |
Tyree Ford v. Carmine Marceno, Sheriff, Lee County, Florida |
Florida |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions disciplinary-proceedings due-process jurisdiction professional-conduct standing statutory-provisions supreme-court |
whether-state-attorney-can-be-disciplined-for-misconduct |
| 23-6863 |
Rena Bilbro v. Education Professional Standards Board |
Kentucky |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-hearing civil-rights due-process plea-agreement professional-conduct professional-standards right-to-counsel teacher-license-revocation teaching-license |
Whether a tenured teacher is entitled to appointed counsel |
| 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… |
| 23-6010 |
James Woo v. Jose Angel Baez, et al. |
Colorado |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-review civil-rights colorado-statute constitutional-challenge due-process expert-review expert-testimony indigent-plaintiff negligence-claims professional-conduct standing |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals erred in holding that the certificate of review requirement pursuant to Colorado's Revised Statute (C.R.S.) § 13… |
| 22-1227 |
Nejla K. Lane v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission |
Illinois |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech illinois-constitution professional-conduct |
Whether the Hearing Board's and the Review Board's Recommendation and Report violated Petitioner's due-process rights |
| 22-1215 |
Darren Thomas Delafield v. Gerard R. Vetter, Acting United States Trustee |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
|
attorney-client-privilege bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-sanctions due-process judicial-discretion non-compensatory-punitive-damages professional-conduct sanctions subpoena |
Did the Bankruptcy Court abuse its discretion by sanctioning Delafield for asserting attorney-client privilege on behalf of his clients? |
| 22-6852 |
Marvin Charles Gabrion, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
adverse-witness attorney-client-privilege attorney-representation civil-procedure conflict-of-interest formal-appearance legal-ethics professional-conduct professional-responsibility standing |
Whether an attorney who provides legal advice to counsel of record without filing a formal appearance in the case can have a conflict of interest if t… |
| 22-619 |
In Re Larry E. Klayman |
|
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
attorney-discipline bar-discipline civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process legal-ethics legal-suspension professional-conduct temporary-suspension time-served writ-of-mandamus |
Did the District of Columbia Court of Appeals err in suspending Larry Klayman from the practice of law? |
| 21-1568 |
Austin Roger Carter v. Genesis Alkali LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
|
appeal appeal-procedure attorney-client attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment professional-conduct standing |
Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments rights were violated |
| 21-7658 |
Mizell Campbell, Jr. v. The Florida Bar |
Florida |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment disbarment due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct professional-conduct racial-bias racial-discrimination |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court deprived an African-American lawyer of Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal under the 14th Amendment |
| 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… |
| 21-6305 |
Eric Volk v. State Bar of California |
California |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence disciplinary-proceedings due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-representation professional-conduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Can The Spate bar of CAIIFOCWA cJos2 . a Complaint an my BHerreo Ms. Lance Brown, Where rules ef profcfsyone| Condect, dnd ng Ave proces Whrk Ve oat l… |
| 21-5020 |
Michael Bernard Potere v. State Bar of California |
California |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bar-admission constitutional-rights disbarment due-process equal-protection federal-rights legal-procedure professional-conduct professional-discipline state-bar |
Whether the State Bar Court of California violated petitioner's constitutional and federal legal rights and erred in recommending disbarment |
| 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 |
| 20-874 |
David Lee Phillips v. State Bar of Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
|
african-american attorney-discipline constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process nevada-supreme-court procedural-fairness professional-conduct suspension withdrawal |
Was Petitioner denied constitutional procedural due process |
| 20-751 |
Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar |
Florida |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech
20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud |
Whether the state action of disbarment violates the First Amendment as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-1428 |
Tina L. Morin v. Montana Office of Disciplinary Counsel |
Montana |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights disciplinary-counsel disciplinary-proceedings due-process Fourteenth-Amendment guardianship legal-ethics legal-representation professional-conduct right-to-counsel |
Did the COP violate Morin's due-process rights under the Fourteenth-Amendment when the COP ordered Morin suspended from practice for allegedly violati… |
| 19-8844 |
Louis A. Piccone v. United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bar-disciplinary-proceedings brady-v-maryland delegated-authority due-process federal-regulations government-investigation material-exculpatory-information patent patent-and-trademark-office professional-conduct |
Are attorneys entitled to material exculpatory information in bar disciplinary proceedings? |
| 19-1225 |
Paul Hunt v. Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Relisted (7) |
constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech political-speech professional-conduct professional-norms public-university qualified-immunity student-speech university-policy |
Whether Respondents violated Mr. Hunt's clearly established rights as a private citizen under the First Amendment by punishing him for his off-campus,… |
| 19-813 |
Loring Edwin Justice v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment administrative-law attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment professional-conduct quasi-criminal self-incrimination |
Whether Tennessee violated the self-incrimination clause when it forced Justice to testify or suffer adverse inferences costing him his Tennessee law … |
| 19-6917 |
In Re Sherri Jefferson |
|
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment professional-conduct self-incrimination |
Whether the order of disbarment should be reversed, remanded, or vacated and set aside for violation of the Due Process and Self-Incrimination Clause … |
| 19-6871 |
Justin Vazquez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
GVR |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance jury-selection professional-conduct sentencing speedy-trial trial-procedure |
Whether assigned counsel were ineffective in violation of the 6th Amendment |
| 19-681 |
Andrew W. Shalaby v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
|
attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-procedure civil-rights disbarment due-process free-speech judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-recusal professional-conduct recusal standing |
Whether a Federal Court can deny an attorney admission to the bar for allegedly impugning the integrity of a judge in violation of ABA Model Rule 8.2(… |
| 19-660 |
David Silver v. Hamrick & Evans, LLP |
California |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
|
attorney-accountability civil-procedure due-process false-statements judicial-integrity legal-ethics professional-conduct standing tribunal-misconduct tribunals |
Does a lawyer or a law firm deserve to be given a free pass by the lower courts when the lawyer and the law firm make false statements of material fac… |
| 19-6286 |
Vara Birapaka v. United States Army Research Laboratory, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict civil-procedure due-process fraud impartiality judicial-review plausibility prima-facie procedural-fairness professional-conduct rights rule-60-motion standing |
Whether a federal court may write off a Rule 60 motion without analyzing the elements |
| 19-5390 |
In Re Francisco Narvaez |
|
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adequate-representation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel legal-representation procedural-error professional-conduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to his attorneys' failure to file a motion to suppr… |
| 18A1321 |
Capital Associated Industries, Inc. v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
first-amendment freedom-of-association intermediate-scrutiny professional-conduct trade-association unauthorized-practice-of-law |
Whether a state's unauthorized practice of law statute that prohibits a trade association from employing attorneys to provide legal services to its me… |
| 18-1537 |
Youras Ziankovich v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding due-process federal-agency federal-agency-practice federal-preemption free-speech interstate-practice legal-ethics license-suspension preemption professional-conduct professional-misconduct standing state-licensing supremacy-clause |
Whether Colorado violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by suspending his New York law license for alleged violations of Colorado's professio… |
| 18-9587 |
Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment administrative-suspension attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial legal-ethics professional-conduct property-rights we-the-people |
Can license to practice law be suspended only on the basis of remaining silent without considering the merits of alleged violation? |
| 18-1406 |
Kristin Roebuck Bethell v. Bryan Stephens, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-ethics attorney-sanctions civil-rights client-advocacy client-representation conflict-of-laws due-process free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions legal-ethics legal-ethics-and-professional-responsibility professional-conduct sanctions standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether counsel Roebuck Bethell's Petition for Writ of Certiorari should be granted after she was sanctioned by the Arizona courts for: (1) believing … |
| 18-9027 |
Marc Nielsen v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief professional-conduct sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations |
Whether petitioner's request for equitable tolling of the statute of limitations meets the statutory requirement for the issuance of a certificate of … |
| 18-8428 |
Samuel V. Martinez v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus legal-ethics professional-conduct right-to-counsel standing state-court-review |
Should the United States District Court of Colorado have granted the Petitioner Counsel after he informed them that he had an ongoing Complaint agains… |
| 18-8262 |
Christian Dior Womack v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-misconduct court-appointed-attorney court-appointment criminal-justice-act due-process ethical-standards fee-violation indigent-client judicial-discretion professional-conduct professional-misconduct referral |
Whether the District Court abused its discretion in declining to refer the court-appointed attorney's misconduct to the Chief Judge for an order to sh… |
| 18-8208 |
In Re Donivan Diaz |
|
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-petition professional-conduct state-bar-act |
Whether the California Supreme Court abused its discretion and/or committed plain error by failing to follow the State Bar Act, Rule 3-700(a) and depr… |
| 18-8056 |
Ronald Glick v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief professional-conduct remand sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations |
Whether petitioner's request for equitable tolling of the statute of limitations period meets the statutory requirement for the issuance of a certific… |
| 18-7729 |
Earnest S. Harris v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-discipline civil-rights court-rules disbarment due-process election-law equal-protection habeas-corpus incarceration professional-conduct suspension voting voting-rights |
Is the State of California's and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's involation of the U.S. Constitution's Amendment 3 by pr… |
| 18-860 |
Larry Edward Parrish v. Board of Professional Responsibility |
Tennessee |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrary-punishment civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech lawyer-sanctions professional-conduct recusal-motion sanctions standing |
Should the judgment of the Tennessee Supreme Court below be reversed |
| 18-6452 |
Alan Bartlett v. State Bar of California, et al. |
California |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts attorney-discipline bar-association civil-rights compelled-speech due-process free-speech mandatory-bar professional-conduct standing |
Whether the State Bar of California deprived the petitioner of due process by failing to investigate his complaints against attorneys |
| 18-226 |
Eric G. Zahnd v. Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of Missouri |
Missouri |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
attorney-discipline attorney-ethics criminal-case due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-transparency professional-conduct prosecutorial-speech public-record public-records |
Whether an attorney may be disciplined for telling the truth about information in the public record in a news release after a criminal case has been a… |
| 18-5619 |
Ralph Raul Contreras v. Hunter Anglea, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-relationship attorney-fees california-rules-of-professional-conduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights professional-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-created-rights |
Does a state-created right to require written consent from a client when others pay the attorney's fees constitute a denial of conflict-free counsel, … |
| 18-5320 |
James MacDonald v. Martin Dori Singer, et al. |
California |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-rules attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court free-speech organized-crime professional-conduct right-to-fair-trial right-to-petition slapp slapp-law standing unequal-protection |
Whether California's SLAPP law is unconstitutional for protecting unlawful petitioning activities, denying due process and the right to a fair trial, … |