state-bar
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A702 | Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. State Bar of Oregon, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-16 | Presumed Complete | attorney-discipline civil-liberties constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech state-bar | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 24-5675 | Lenore Albert v. Roxanne Gonzalez, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-suspension district-court legal-practice local-rules rules-enabling-act state-bar | Whether a United States District Court can automatically suspend an attorney's membership to practice law in that District Court based upon a State Ba… |
| 21-6798 | Daniel Everett v. Justices of the Supreme Court of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law administrative-proceedings civil-rights disability due-process involuntary-inactive-status licensee-rights standing state-bar state-bar-court younger-abstention | This case asks whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies to a challenge against California State Bar rules which allow that agency to place lice… |
| 21-974 | Sylvia Borunda Firth, et al. v. Tony K. McDonald, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | administrative-agency civil-rights first-amendment free-speech free-speech-clause government-speech judicial-department keller-v-state-bar overrule-precedent state-bar | 1. Whether the State Bar of Texas, which is "a public corporation and an administrative agency of the judicial department of [the Texas] government," … | |
| 21-5630 | Daniel Everett v. State Bar of California | California | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional-rights disability disability-inactive-status due-process involuntary-inactive-status medical-records postdeprivation-hearing predeprivation-hearing state-bar state-bar-rules | 1. Is constitutional due process of law violated by State Bar rules that allow the agency to enroll licensees with disabilities on involuntary inactiv… |
| 21-5385 | Albert M. Kun v. State Bar of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fine fifth-amendment fourth-amendment state-bar timbs-standard timbs-v-indiana | 1. Whether the approximately $40,000 fine assessed by the State Bar is an excessive fine under Timbs v. Indiana 586 U.S.—(2019) for a $460-financial v… |
| 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. |
| 20-1678 | Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. Oregon State Bar, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | Amici (10)Response Waived | attorney-regulation compelled-speech constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech keller-v-state-bar mandatory-dues political-speech public-sector-unions state-bar | This Court has held that "exacting" First Amendment scrutiny applies to laws that force public employees to subsidize the speech and political activit… |
| 20-417 | Sanjay Bhardwaj v. State Bar of California | California | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment forgery new-trial new-trial-motion standing state-bar trial-transcripts | Two questions are presented: 0 Can California State Bar Court consider trial transcripts which are not certified, are false and product of antecedent… |
| 20-59 | Charles R. Campbell v. Hollie Bennett, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-23 | Denied | Relisted (2) | due-process equal-protection family-court family-rights right-to-counsel rooker-feldman self-incrimination sixth-amendment state-actor state-bar | Coincident May 2013 Divorce action and mandated co-Parental Evaluation, Petitioner, a long-time professional with no previous criminal history, was fa… |
| 19-8499 | Ryan James Hoyt v. California | California | 2020-05-19 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | capital-defendant compulsory-process conflict-of-interest due-process materiality-review state-bar | Petitioner's attorney resigned from the California State Bar before Petitioner's sentencing date, and records indicate that during Petitioner's trial … |
| 19-831 | Adam Jarchow, et al. v. State Bar of Wisconsin, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-02 | Denied | Amici (5)Relisted (3) | associational-rights compelled-association compelled-speech first-amendment integrated-bar janus-precedent political-speech state-bar | In Janus v. AFSCME, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018), the Court held that State laws compelling public employees to subsidize the speech of labor unions violate… |
| 19-6813 | Lenore Luann Albert v. State Bar of California | California | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines legal-costs license license-suspension reinstatement state-bar state-bar-costs | Whether the California State Bar's conditional suspension that conditions the time suspended to payment of State Bar costs and other amounts ordered d… |
| 19-663 | Robert J. Wilson v. State Bar of Texas | Texas | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response Waived | access-to-courts constitutional-rights dent-v-west-virginia disbarment disciplinary-procedure due-process governmental-immunity in-re-ruffalo legal-ethics state-bar | Introduction: Petitioner contends he was disbarred without notice or opportunity to defend himself by his state bar and then denied access to the Cour… |
| 19-5662 | Carter Stephens v. Marcelo Britto Gomez, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process henderson-factors judicial-intervention legal-ethics legal-malpractice sanctions standing state-bar state-bar-regulation | 1. The plaintiff Carter Stephens was not informed by the State Bar of the abhorrent record of the neglectful attorney he subsequently retained. This a… |
| 18-7911 | Albert Miklos Kun v. State Bar of California | California | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 11th-amendment 14th-amendment bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption federalism fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-bar Whether petitioner's right to protection by the Eq Whether petitioner's rights protected by the Due P Whether the California Supreme Court may order pay | Whether California waived its sovereign immunity to the Bankruptcy Clause. Whether the California Supreme Court may order payment of a debt that has … |