state-bar-regulation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5498 Lenore Luann Albert v. State Bar of California California 2024-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline disbarment due-process federal-court-practice fourteenth-amendment state-bar-regulation Whether California State Bar can regulate the practice of law in federal court. Specifically, whether California's disbarment of petitioner fell belo…
20-594 Richard S. Berry v. State Bar of Arizona Arizona 2020-11-04 Denied Response Waived antitrust civil-rights commercial-speech constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment free-speech professional-regulation professional-services standing state-bar-regulation unauthorized-practice-of-law IS A COURT RULE DEFINING AND PROHIBITING THE UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE OF LAW ("UPL") AN UNCONSTITU TIONAL ABRIDGMENT OF COMMERCIAL SPEECH WHEN a) IT IS …
20-115 Charles G. Kinney v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response Waived antitrust-law civil-rights due-process first-amendment standing state-bar-regulation 30+ states have mandatory or integrated state bar associations who mostly use temporarily-inactive attorneys serving as "judges" to impose discipline …
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…
18-509 Charles G. Kinney v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response Waived anti-trust civil-rights civil-rights-violations color-of-authority due-process first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct professional-speech standing state-bar-regulation vexatious-litigant By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did these same 3 Judges on a Ninth Circuit panel abuse their discretion by covering-up act…