attorney-ethics

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5145 Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied IFP attorney-ethics conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel This is a death penalty case from Alabama in which the following occurred: (1) the defense attorney was being paid in substantial part by the defenda…
24-5483 Spyros Panos v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-ethics conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard In Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), this Court held that a defendant alleging ineffective assistance of counsel based on a lawyer's conflict o…
23-940 Kenneth James Rosellini v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics New Jersey 2024-02-28 Denied attorney-ethics due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court professional-misconduct res-judicata 1) Can an attorney can be suspended from the practice of law in a state attorney ethics proceeding by the state's highest court for failure to obey th…
23-497 L. Lin Wood v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response Waived attorney-ethics attorney-liability civil-procedure due-process federal-civil-procedure frivolous-pleading of-counsel rule-11 rule-11-sanctions safe-harbor-period sanctions standing 1. Whether an attorney whose name is designated as "Of Counsel" on the signature page of a frivolous pleading that the attorney did not sign, file, su…
21-547 Kevin Tung v. Superior Court of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived attorney-ethics civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young federal-law judiciary sovereign-immunity The Third Circuit affirmed the New Jersey District Court's decision that dismissed the Petitioner Kevin Tung, Esq.'s violation of the constitutional d…
20-1711 Kevin K. Tung v. Janet Yijuan Fou New Jersey 2021-06-11 Denied attorney-discipline attorney-ethics due-process equal-protection fraud-on-the-court hostile-work-environment intervention judicial-criticism judicial-misconduct professional-reputation Whether the New Jersey Judiciary's denial of the motion to intervene by the Petitioner in the an action on the basis that Petitioner does not have "an…
20-6295 Donna Raively v. Thomas A. Whelihan New Jersey 2020-11-12 Denied Relisted (3)IFP attorney-ethics attorney-misconduct case-conflict civil-procedure client-representation client-trust fiduciary-duty legal-ethics legal-malpractice professional-misconduct standing 1. Whether an attorney is held to a certain standard of fiduciary duty in lower courts; his knowledge of the law far exceeds that of the average perso…
19-858 GemCap Lending I, LLC v. Quarles & Brady, LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied attorney-ethics civil-procedure commercial-loan commercial-transactions duty-of-candor fraud fraud-representation legal-misrepresentation professional-responsibility summary-judgment 1. When an attorney representing a borrower makes false and misleading representations of fact and opinion in connection with a commercial loan applic…
19-6937 Scherrieto Little v. Janis Nau, as Administrator California 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power attorney-ethics civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-fraud fraud judicial-misconduct legal-ethics probate probate-law rule-8.4 1. WHEN A VIOLATION OF CA RULE 8.4 (c) OCCUR, SHOULD THE HEIR 'S OF AN ESTATE HAVE TO PAY FOR THE FRAUD, CORRUPTION, AND LIE'S THAT HAVE BEEN COMMITTE…
19-6814 Issac Efren Jimenez v. California California 2019-12-03 Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-ethics attorney-representation conflict-of-interest criminal-law criminal-procedure ethics former-client legal-ethics leniency prosecutorial-discretion witness-testimony Whether an attorney in a criminal case may subsequently represent a client who seeks leniency in exchange for testimony in a pending case against that…
18-1406 Kristin Roebuck Bethell v. Bryan Stephens, et al. Arizona 2019-05-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-ethics attorney-sanctions civil-rights client-advocacy client-representation conflict-of-laws due-process free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions legal-ethics legal-ethics-and-professional-responsibility professional-conduct sanctions standing writ-of-certiorari Whether counsel Roebuck Bethell's Petition for Writ of Certiorari should be granted after she was sanctioned by the Arizona courts for: (1) believing …
18-226 Eric G. Zahnd v. Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of Missouri Missouri 2018-08-22 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived attorney-discipline attorney-ethics criminal-case due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-transparency professional-conduct prosecutorial-speech public-record public-records After the conclusion of a child sexual abuse criminal case, the Prosecuting Attorney of Platte County, Missouri, Eric G. Zahnd, issued a news release …