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25-743 Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2025-12-22 Denied constitutional-rights disbarment due-process judicial-procedure lawyer-discipline legal-ethics 1. Whether the court that has jurisdiction over lawyer disciplinary matters can issue orders disbarring an attorney without first addressing cited, un…
25-192 Arthur Edward Ezor v. State Bar of California California 2025-08-18 Denied Response Waived california-law disbarment legal-review petition-of-review supreme-court-of-california 1. Should the Supreme Court of California have granted the Petition of Review? 2. Should the California Disbarment Order against Ezor be reversed?
24-1283 Jack R. T. Jordan v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Fifth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response Waived attorney-conduct disbarment due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-misconduct 1. Whether the U.S. Constitution delegated power to federal courts to disbar an attorney because he stated in written federal court filings that feder…
24A1168 Richard W. Gannett v. Board of Bar Overseers Massachusetts 2025-05-30 Presumed Complete bar-discipline conflict-of-interest disbarment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Question not identified.
24-5498 Lenore Luann Albert v. State Bar of California California 2024-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline disbarment due-process federal-court-practice fourteenth-amendment state-bar-regulation Whether California State Bar can regulate the practice of law in federal court. Specifically, whether California's disbarment of petitioner fell belo…
24-174 Jack Jordan v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department New York 2024-08-16 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech 1. Whether the New York State Court of Appeals violated the U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV by dismissing an attorney's appeal based on the summary co…
23-1274 Brian Philip Manookian v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2024-06-05 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech notice retaliation The Tennessee Supreme Court disbarred Brian Manookian for truthful statements, the majority made out-of-court and about other attorneys, and further…
23-1087 Jack Jordan v. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-04-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process federal-judges federal-law federal-offenses free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-procedure 1. Whether any federal law or the U.S. Constitu tion authorize any federal judge to penalize or punish any person because such person stated in writte…
23-855 Richard Abbott v. Supreme Court of Delaware, et al. Delaware 2024-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause disbarment due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech pro-se professional-licensure I. Whether a person proceeding Pro Se in defending a confidential professional licensure disbarment proceeding is vested with full 1st Amendment Right…
22-1056 Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. State Bar of California California 2023-05-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process expressive-association free-speech petitioning state-bar-court (1) Whether the Final Decision of a State Court Denying Review of the Decision of an Administrative Agency Recommending Disbarment, Causes an Inter…
22-836 Hiram I. Perez Soto v. Maite D. Oronoz-Rodriguez, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights declaratory-judgment disbarment due-process ethical-complaints injunction judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing I filed a complaint in the Federal District Court of Puerto Rico in March 2019 19CV-1266 Leading case, and 19CV-1774. I wanted to obtain a declaratory…
22-684 Jack Jordan v. Kansas Disciplinary Administrator Kansas 2023-01-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-ethics standing A lawyer, in motions filed in federal court proceedings (requesting reconsideration of an order or disqualification of a judge) stated that one or mor…
22-159 Steven Pascale v. RPI Company California 2022-08-19 Denied civil-procedure concealment constitutional-rights disbarment discovery due-process federal-statutes lawyer-discipline legal-ethics legal-practice oath-of-office professional-misconduct Brayton Law was barred from practicing due to lying, breach of lawyers oath of office, impropriety, and dishonesty: See Appendix K, p. 27 (CV 442750 J…
21-7658 Mizell Campbell, Jr. v. The Florida Bar Florida 2022-04-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment disbarment due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct professional-conduct racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether The Florida Supreme Court deprived an African-American lawyer of Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal under the 14th Amendment of the…
21-7378 Andrew Long v. Oregon State Bar Oregon 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline bribery disbarment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indefinite-suspension state-attorney-discipline state-bar-misconduct witness-bribery Did the Oregon Supreme Court violate Long's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process prior to deprivation of his property interest where its order of…
21-6867 Gwendolyn Thorpe v. OneMain Financial Virginia 2022-01-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment attorney-misconduct case-reversal civil-procedure disbarment disciplinary-action due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment procedural-irregularity rule-8 rule-8-violation 1. Can a judge reverse a case no: to a different case no: or can the judge oversee the plaintiff motion to dismiss the counter claim with the same cas…
21-5020 Michael Bernard Potere v. State Bar of California California 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bar-admission constitutional-rights disbarment due-process equal-protection federal-rights legal-procedure professional-conduct professional-discipline state-bar Whether the State Bar Court of California violated petitioner's constitutional and federal legal rights and erred in recommending disbarment.
20-751 Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar Florida 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech 20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud The Florida Bar, an integrated Bar system under the jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme Court, has disbarred an attorney who has posted what amounts t…
19-8270 Earl Mayberry Johnson, Jr. v. The Florida Bar Florida 2020-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment attorney-discipline confrontation-clause disbarment due-process equal-protection florida-bar service-of-process 1. Whether the State of Florida violated the Petitioner's 14th Amendment due process and equal protection rights when it summarily disbarred the Petit…
19-8164 Eric T. Tolen v. Jeff Norman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied IFP brady-claim disbarment exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure manifest-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel trial-court withheld-evidence Whether or not the Lower Court committed a manifest err of law in finding that "counsel's extensive litigation concerning the two seized boxes demonst…
19-6917 In Re Sherri Jefferson 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment professional-conduct self-incrimination For fifty-three years under this Court's precedent in Spevack v. Klein, 385 U.S. 511 (1967,) lawyers cannot be disbarred for exercising their privileg…
19-6916 Sherri Jefferson v. Supreme Court of Georgia Georgia 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP attorney-discipline disbarment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent professional-responsibility self-incrimination 1. Does this Court's opinion in Spevack v. Klein, 385 U.S. 511 (1967), In re Ruffalo, 390 U.S. 544 (1968), and North Carolina Board of Dental Examiner…
19-681 Andrew W. Shalaby v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-procedure civil-rights disbarment due-process free-speech judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-recusal professional-conduct recusal standing 1. Can a Federal Court deny an attorney admission to the bar of the court, as a punishment for the alleged violation of ABA Model Rule of Professional…
19-663 Robert J. Wilson v. State Bar of Texas Texas 2019-11-22 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts constitutional-rights dent-v-west-virginia disbarment disciplinary-procedure due-process governmental-immunity in-re-ruffalo legal-ethics state-bar Introduction: Petitioner contends he was disbarred without notice or opportunity to defend himself by his state bar and then denied access to the Cour…
18-1551 Joseph Q. Mirarchi v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2019-06-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-disbarment constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence mitigation-evidence neuropsychological-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the state supreme court order for attorney disbarment is inconsistent with the standards set forth in Selling v. Radford, 243 U.S. 46, 50-51 (…
18-1436 Ulric Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure disbarment due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review retained-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as t…
18-1399 Geoffrey Parker Damon v. Cincinnati Bar Association Ohio 2019-05-06 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment-14th-amendment attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violation disbarment disciplinary-process disparate-treatment due-process equal-protection legal-profession race-discrimination racial-discrimination reinstatement reverse-discrimination reverse-race-discrimination Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio issued an order of permanent disbarment against Petitioner as a result of reverse race discrimination against Caucas…
18-8678 Mizell Campbell, Jr. v. The Florida Bar Florida 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights disbarment disciplinary-proceedings due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fair-trial fair-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-misconduct marshall-v-jerrico racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether an African-American lawyer facing disciplinary proceedings was deprived of his rights to Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal under t…
18-8248 Hersy Jones, Jr. v. Supreme Court of Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights default-judgment disbarment due-process judicial-review recusal rooker-feldman section-1983 standing Does Rooker Feldman bar a disbarred attorney from seeking damages and equitable relief under Sec. 1983, due to alleged violations of his federal right…
18-7729 Earnest S. Harris v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP attorney-discipline civil-rights court-rules disbarment due-process election-law equal-protection habeas-corpus incarceration professional-conduct suspension voting voting-rights Question not identified.
18-180 Jesus E. Tirrez v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline, et al. Texas 2018-08-10 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof disbarment disbarment-proceedings due-process equal-protection in-re-ruffalo professional-license professional-licenses quasi-criminal quasi-criminal-proceeding Rules promulgated by the Supreme Court of Texas decree that disbarment proceedings against attorneys are civil and that the burden of proof in those p…