public-protection

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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
20-519 State Bar of California, et al. v. Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied 11-usc-523(a)(7) attorney-discipline bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split federal-courts kelly-v-robinson public-protection statutory-interpretation Whether payments ordered by the California Supreme Court as a condition of an attorney's discipline, imposed to protect the public, are non-dischargea…