professional-misconduct

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A516 Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2025-11-04 Application 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 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 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 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 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 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…