| 25A516 |
Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
2025-11-04 |
Application |
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attorney-discipline bar-counsel constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings professional-misconduct |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires constitutional procedural safeguards in state bar disciplinary proceedings against attorneys, notwithstanding … |
| 25-323 |
Michael F. Kissell v. Pennsylvania Office of the Budget Legal Office, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights professional-misconduct retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud title-vii |
Whether subject matter jurisdiction was properly invoked for alleged Title VII and 1983 violations involving tax fraud, retaliation, and concealment o… |
| 25A61 |
Mary E. Hill v. Consandra Jones |
Virginia |
2025-07-15 |
Presumed Complete |
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attorney-client-relationship ineffective-assistance legal-malpractice pro-se-representation professional-misconduct writ-of-certiorari |
Whether an attorney's breach of professional duties and failure to file a writ of certiorari constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel warranting … |
| 24-6968 |
Willie Rodriquez Jones v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process jury-trial professional-misconduct structural-error trial-counsel trial-jurisdiction |
Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction due to structural error when it failed to address professional misconduct of trial counsel before or durin… |
| 24-625 |
Elana Thibault v. State Bar of California |
California |
2024-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-discipline due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-misconduct property-interest state-bar |
Does the suspension from practice of law and imposition of monetary sanctions by methods that deviate from the prescribed means and offend the sense o… |
| 24-5440 |
Edward Moses, Jr. v. Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel |
Louisiana |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attorney-discipline confrontation-clause due-process judicial-procedure legal-ethics professional-misconduct |
Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court violated Edward Moses Jr.'s due process rights in suspending his law license without adequate confrontation |
| 24A93 |
Elana Thibault v. State Bar of California |
California |
2024-07-25 |
Presumed Complete |
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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… |
| 23-940 |
Kenneth James Rosellini v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics |
New Jersey |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
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attorney-ethics due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court professional-misconduct res-judicata |
Can an attorney be suspended from the practice of law for failure to obey tribunal rules when asserting the orders are unconstitutional? |
| 22-159 |
Steven Pascale v. RPI Company |
California |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
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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… |
| 21-1440 |
Mark T. McCloskey v. Missouri Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel |
Missouri |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment moral-turpitude pardon professional-misconduct right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense |
Whether the Second Amendment and Due Process Clause permit attorney sanctions for professional misconduct based on a finding of 'moral turpitude' wher… |
| 21-7160 |
Edward R. Brown v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-relationship attorney-obligations civil-rights court-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-ethics professional-misconduct |
Why hasn't my lawyer answered any of my phone calls or come to see me? |
| 20-8097 |
Brandon Marquis Jennings, aka Mustafa Beezy Bey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction professional-misconduct |
Does the defendant have the right to effective assistance of counsel |
| 20-6295 |
Donna Raively v. Thomas A. Whelihan |
New Jersey |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
attorney-ethics attorney-misconduct case-conflict civil-procedure client-representation client-trust fiduciary-duty legal-ethics legal-malpractice professional-misconduct standing |
Whether an attorney is held to a certain standard of fiduciary-duty,attorney-misconduct,client-trust,legal-ethics,civil-procedure,standing |
| 20-6163 |
Angelique Bankston v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement material-omissions professional-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the government fabricated probable cause and made material omissions in the affidavit, violating the Fourth Amendment |
| 19-1144 |
Michael McCarron v. DeCarlo & Shanley, P.C. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-procedure erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty labor-law labor-union legal-advice legal-malpractice preemption professional-misconduct standing state-law-claims |
Does ERISA preempt state law claims against a law firm for providing improper legal advice to a labor union official? |
| 19-602 |
Chesley Eugene Saunders v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-client-relationship confidential-information criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-bias judicial-recusal professional-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment |
Whether the Due Process Clause and the Constitutional Guarantees of a Fundamentally Fair Trial permit a criminal trial to be presided over by a judge … |
| 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… |
| 18-8262 |
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… |
| 18-822 |
Steven G. Cohen v. Grievance Administrator, Attorney Grievance Commission of Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-petition judicial-corruption judicial-misconduct petition petition-clause professional-ethics professional-misconduct rosa-parks-estate |
Whether the arbitrary, contradictory and fact-free proceedings conducted by the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board violated Petitioner's rights under … |
| 18-322 |
Steven A. Miner v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission |
Illinois |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
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attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline burden-of-proof clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process due-process-clause first-amendment misappropriation personal-relationships private-relationships professional-misconduct |
Whether the burden of proof was improperly shifted to the attorney, in violation of the Due Process Clause, by finding dishonesty based on lack of rec… |