No. 20-1506

Jeffrey G. Thomas v. State Bar of California

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2021-04-28
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: 14th-amendment attorney-discipline due-process personal-jurisdiction state-bar-court subject-matter-jurisdiction
Latest Conference: 2021-05-20
Question Presented (from Petition)

I. Whether discipline of an attorney by a hearing board of a state bar "court" is void because of failure to acquire personal jurisdiction of the attorney at law under the Due Process of the Laws Clause of Amendment Fourteen of the Constitution?

II. Whether discipline of an attorney at law by an order of the hearing board of the state bar court was without the subject matter jurisdiction of the court, because the Bar Association filed and served its Application on the attorney at law during a period of abatement of the pending disciplinary cases?

III. Whether a bar association's sanction of "ineligibility to practice law" is void for vagueness as applied to an attorney at law in active practice?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether discipline of an attorney by a state bar court is void due to lack of personal jurisdiction

Docket Entries

2021-05-24
Petition DENIED.
2021-05-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/20/2021.
2021-04-29
Waiver of right of respondent State Bar of California to respond filed.
2021-04-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 28, 2021)

Attorneys

Jeffrey Thomas
Jeffrey Gray ThomasThomas Law Company, Petitioner
State Bar of California
Robert G. RetanaThe State Bar of California, Respondent