professional-responsibility

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A328 Good Lawgic, LLC, et al. v. Juan M. Merchan, Justice, New York State Supreme Court, New York County New York 2024-10-04 Presumed Complete first-amendment judicial-sanctions legal-ethics media-litigation professional-responsibility trial-court-conduct Whether a state court can impose sanctions or restrict legal practice based on litigation conduct in a high-profile criminal case involving a media co…
23-7798 Evan C. Wilhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP christeson-v-roper conflict-of-interest counsel-performance cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics prejudice-presumption presumption-of-prejudice professional-reputation professional-responsibility Whether prejudice should be presumed when a conflict of interest forces Counsel to choose between denigrating their own performance on behalf of their…
23-5541 Mark A. Hartle v. New York New York 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-inquiry professional-ethics professional-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel trial-strategy Is a criminal defendant denied their right to effective assistance of counsel when there are indications, of which the defendant was unaware, that tri…
23-5220 Amy Jacquelyn Harkins v. Citizens Bank Second Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied IFP administrative-law attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law crime-fraud-exception evidence judicial-review legal-procedure professional-responsibility statutory-interpretation whether-a-court-can-compel-a-party-to-disclose-privileged-communications-under-the-crime-fraud-exception
22-7789 Douglas Manning v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied IFP case-merits civil-rights defendant-justification due-process harmful-consequences ineffective-assistance legal-excuses legal-malpractice plaintiff-claims procedural-grounds professional-responsibility standing Was the defendant's representation so deficient that the plaintiff should be held responsible for it?
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…
22-5257 Daryl Stephen v. New York New York 2022-08-02 Denied IFP attorney-conduct attorney-misconduct civil-procedure damages legal-ethics legal-malpractice professional-responsibility professional-standards standing tort-law Whether the petitioner's attorney committed legal malpractice by contravening the law
21-5750 Richard A. Waite v. Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility New Hampshire 2021-09-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure bar-regulations civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process ethical-rules judicial-standards lawyer-conduct legal-ethics professional-responsibility standing Whether the conflict of interest between a public defender's office and its appellate division violates a defendant's constitutional right to effectiv…
20-8207 Bernier Gerard Jackson v. Florida Florida 2021-06-02 Denied IFP best-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer professional-responsibility right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel requires counsel to advise his client to accept a plea offer which is clearly…
20-5500 Valentin Spataru v. Pedro Antonio Suarez, et al. Florida 2020-08-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct legal-ethics pro-se-litigation procedural-rules professional-responsibility standing Whether Florida judges may disregard my filings and prior cases, and may not exercise the standard of care requested by law and expected from professi…
19-8894 Michael Halliburton v. Board of Professional Responsibility Tennessee 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct legal-ethics party-standing procedural-rights procedural-rules professional-responsibility substantive-rights Should the determinations of the Board of Judicial Conduct - responsible by statute and by the Tennessee Supreme Court Rules for maintaining the integ…
19-8434 Audrey Jean Ukkerd v. State Bar of California California 2020-05-12 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct civil-rights due-process fraud legal-ethics medical-evaluation professional-responsibility settlement-conference workers-compensation Why did Attorney Michael Siegel state that the State Bar of California asserted certain claims in the complaint?
19-858 GemCap Lending I, LLC v. Quarles & Brady, LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied attorney-ethics civil-procedure commercial-loan commercial-transactions duty-of-candor fraud fraud-representation legal-misrepresentation professional-responsibility summary-judgment When an attorney's false and misleading representations in a commercial loan application can lead to summary judgment in the attorney's favor despite …
19-6916 Sherri Jefferson v. Supreme Court of Georgia Georgia 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP attorney-discipline disbarment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent professional-responsibility self-incrimination Does this Court's opinion in Spevack v. Klein, 385 U.S. 511 (1967), In re Ruffalo, 390 U.S. 544 (1968), and North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v…
19-6427 Ray A. Smith v. John Chapdelaine, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP charging-document criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions professional-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence As representatives of the Office of Public Defender, did lawyers Willie Rios and Eric Zale fulfill their professional responsibilities and obligations…
19-5725 Charles Rochester v. The Fortune Society Second Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-act civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest document-tampering due-process eeoc-review equal-employment fraud-upon-the-court jurisdictional-challenge obstruction-of-justice professional-responsibility retaliation tampering-with-documents whistleblower issues being raised
18-8012 Tasha Michelle Blackburn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-communication criminal-procedure due-process duty-to-advise ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-acceptance plea-bargaining plea-negotiations professional-responsibility sixth-amendment What constitutes communicating a plea, and does counsel have an obligation to recommend accepting a plea, or rejecting a plea and proceeding to trial?
18-5209 Michael Barrett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship conflict-of-interest constructive-denial-of-counsel impermissible-risk ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion professional-ethics professional-responsibility right-to-counsel standard-of-review Does it create a conflict of interest for a lawyer to have to argue on appeal that the trial court should have replaced him? Can this create an imperm…