Margaret Jean Lowery v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission
1. Whether a state may impose or enforce attorney discipline through a proceeding that denies the respondent meaningful access to the tribunal and fails to establish jurisdiction on an accessible, testable record.
2. Whether a state may impose attorney discipline based on alleged speech without establishing jurisdiction and without testing that speech in an accessible adversarial proceeding.
3. Whether federal courts may decline to provide prospective relief from enforcement of a disciplinary judgment entered without jurisdiction and without an accessible adjudicative process, on grounds of judicial immunity or abstention.
Whether a state may impose attorney discipline through proceedings that deny meaningful access to the tribunal and fail to establish jurisdiction on an accessible record, and whether federal courts may decline prospective relief from such disciplinary judgments on grounds of judicial immunity or abstention