1)
Does 28 U.S.C. § 1291 grant lawyers the statutory right to appeal a final order of a district
court suspending a lawyer from the practice
of law?

2)
Can a district court prevent appellate review
of its own final decision by directing the clerk
of the court not to process a timely notice of
appeal filed pursuant to F.R.App.P. 3, which
provides that "the clerk must promptly send a
copy of the notice of appeal . . . to the clerk of
the court of appeals"?

3)
Did a circuit court judge violate 28 U.S.C. § 47
by determining an issue in a matter as an appellate judge that involved the same issue he
had already determined below in the same
case while sitting as a district court judge?

Does a lawyer have the statutory right to appeal a final order suspending the lawyer from the practice of law?