| 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 … |