Earl Mayberry Johnson, Jr. v. The Florida Bar
1. Whether the State of Florida violated the Petitioner's 14th Amendment due process and equal protection rights when it summarily disbarred the Petitioner in a contempt, without notice and an opportunity to be heard, contrary to this Court's holdings in In Re Ruffalo, 390 U.S. 544, 550-51 (1961) and Willner v. Committee on Character & Fitness, 373 U.S. 96, 102 (1963).
2. Whether the State of Florida violated the Petitioner's 14th Amendment due process and equal protection rights when it summarily denied the Petitioner's timely motion for rehearing the contempt/disbarment order, entered without notice or an opportunity to be heard, contrary to this Court's holdings in In Re Ruffalo, 390 U.S. 544, 550-51 (1961) and Willner v. Committee on Character & Fitness, 373 U.S. 96, 102 (1963).
3. Whether the State of Florida violated the Petitioner's Confrontation Clause rights when it summarily denied the Petitioner's timely motion for rehearing the contempt/disbarment order, entered without notice or an opportunity to be heard, contrary to this Court's holdings in In Re Ruffalo, 390 U.S. 544, 550-51 (1961) and Willner v. Committee on Character & Fitness, 373 U.S. 96, 102 (1963).
4. Whether the State of Florida's Rule on Service of Process for Attorney Discipline actions is unconstitutional as applied, in contrary to this Court's holdings in Supreme Court of New Hampshire v. Piper, 470 U.S. 274 (1985) and generally Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000).
Whether the State of Florida violated the Petitioner's 14th-Amendment-due-process, 14th-Amendment-equal-protection, Confrontation-Clause, service-of-process