No. 18-860

Larry Edward Parrish v. Board of Professional Responsibility

Lower Court: Tennessee
Docketed: 2019-01-07
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: arbitrary-punishment civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech lawyer-sanctions professional-conduct recusal-motion sanctions standing
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2019-02-15
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Should the judgment of the Tennessee Supreme
Court below be reversed because the Tennessee
Supreme Court arbitrarily punished Petitioner/lawyer as if his "pure speech" was "nonspeech" and/or "incidental speech?"

2. Should the judgment of the Tennessee Supreme
Court below be reversed because, in the below quasi-criminal proceedings, the Tennessee Supreme Court
employed a standard that fails to meet minimum Fourteenth Amendment due process requirements (notice and a fair trial) and the prerequisite First Amendment requirements necessary before the false statement exception to free speech is invokable?

3. Should the judgment of the Tennessee Supreme
Court be reversed because the combination of the Rules of Professional Conduct, Model Rule 8.2(a)(1) (hereinafter "Rule 8.2(a)(1)"), combined with the so-called "objective standard," with its fictitious so-called "reasonable attorney" standard, combined with American Bar Association Standards For Imposing Lawyer Sanctions (hereinafter "ABA Standards") section 6.12 (infra at 7 n.2; at 7-8; App. pp. 15-17, 29-32, 59-64, 66, 70, 76; RoA Vol. 20, AR Vol. 18, Tr. Ex. 7), made it impossible, in advance of Petitioner/lawyer penning the words in the recusal motion, to know that using the words for which Petitioner/lawyer has been sanctioned by suspension of law license would risk being punished by the State, much less what the penalty could be?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Should the judgment of the Tennessee Supreme Court below be reversed

Docket Entries

2019-02-19
Petition DENIED.
2019-01-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
2019-01-22
Waiver of right of respondent TN Supreme Court Bd. of Professional Responsibility to respond filed.
2019-01-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 6, 2019)
2018-11-15
Application (18A516) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until January 4, 2019.
2018-11-13
Application (18A516) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 26, 2018 to January 4, 2019, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.

Attorneys

Larry Edward Parrish
Larry Edward Parrish — Petitioner
TN Supreme Court Bd. of Professional Responsibility
Talmage Mims WattsOffice of the Tennessee Attorney General, Respondent