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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 Whether a state bar association can impose disciplinary sanctions on attorneys for protected First Amendment speech without violating their constituti…
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 based on a State Bar suspension, and whether…
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 Whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies to a challenge against California State Bar rules which allow that agency to place licensees with phys…
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 Whether the State Bar of Texas qualifies as a government agency for purposes of the government speech doctrine
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 Is constitutional due process of law violated by State Bar rules that allow the agency to enroll licensees with disabilities on involuntary inactive s…
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 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 viol…
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 Is the statute that compels attorneys to subsidize Oregon State Bar's political and ideological speech subject to 'exacting' scrutiny?
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 Can California State Bar Court consider trial transcripts which are not certified, are false and product of antecedent forgery after trial, for purpos…
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 Right to Counsel for Defence
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 Whether California's denial of materiality review violates a capital defendant's due process right of inquiry or his right to compulsory process
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 Whether Lathrop and Keller should be overruled and 'integrated bar' arrangements like Wisconsin's invalidated under the First Amendment
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 Can the State Bar of Texas disbar one of its members without affording him due process of law?
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 Why was plaintiff Carter Stephens not informed by the State Bar of the neglectful attorney's record he retained?
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