professional-discipline

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-783 Sonia Hernandez Caruso v. Texas Medical Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending administrative-law due-process medical-licensing notice-requirements professional-discipline sovereign-immunity Whether the Texas Medical Board's actions in denying and restricting Dr. Caruso's medical license violated her due process rights under the Fourteenth…
25-692 Brooke Lynnette Girley, et al. v. The Florida Bar, et al. Florida 2025-12-12 Pending Response Waived due-process equal-protection first-amendment professional-discipline religious-freedom speech-based-discipline Whether a state may impose professional discipline on attorneys for out-of-court criticism of a judge without clear and convincing proof of false stat…
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
18-8745 Louis Alfred Piccone v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure pa-rde-216 patent selling-v-radford administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure patent patent-attorney-discipline professional-discipline reciprocal-discipline statutory-interpretation Does Mr. Piccone's Pennsylvania reciprocal suspension, based upon the USPTO action conducted in violation of 35 U.S.C. § 24's mandated discovery and d…
18-7381 Anthony C. Hernandez v. California California 2019-01-11 Denied IFP administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hearing medical-license professional-discipline regulatory-agency standing Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the denial of a hearing on the revocation of his medical license
18-644 David Carl Cottingham v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Washington 2018-11-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-conduct bar-discipline due-process first-amendment objective-analysis petitioning petitioning-rights pro-se-representation professional-discipline regulatory-approval split state-court strict-scrutiny Should this court resolve the split in state court responses to this court's prescribed objective analysis protecting first amendment petitioning as d…