disciplinary-proceedings

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24-1227 Frank L. Slaughter, Jr. v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2025-06-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-licensure disciplinary-proceedings due-process ethical-rules fourteenth-amendment supervisory-authority 1. Whether the Tennessee Supreme Court erred in failing to hold that Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 9, the enforcement provision for alleged ethical vio…
24-1009 Joseph D. Lento v. Pennsylvania Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2025-03-21 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline disciplinary-proceedings due-process judicial-fairness legal-ethics procedural-rights The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC) issued a 134-page Report, with 496 factual statements, followed by legal conclus…
24-747 Erik Cooper v. Tennessee, et al. Tennessee 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) agency-policy court-rules disciplinary-proceedings judicial-ethics legal-accountability procedural-integrity Whether the public can maintain trust or confidence in a state supreme court if the court ignores its own rules and its agency's own policies and rule…
24-33 Reuben Neff v. Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board Iowa 2024-07-12 Denied Response Waived attorney-disciplinary-rules attorney-speech civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech professional-conduct sexual-harassment workplace-speech Reuben Neff is a licensed attorney and a member of the State of Iowa bar. While he was the elected chief prosecuting attorney for Wapello County Iowa,…
23-7372 Meghan Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion professional-disciplinary-proceedings sixth-amendment standing I. Should this Court hear the appeal in a case and controversy to allow the Courts on remand, not Congress, or bureaucrats or Disciplinary Boards to c…
23-989 Robert J. Murphy v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process ex-parte-communications first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-code sixth-amendment workers-compensation 1. Where petitioner sought removal in 2010 of unelected administrative Workers' Compensation judges involving their actual or apparent improprieties i…
23-6861 Tyree Ford v. Carmine Marceno, Sheriff, Lee County, Florida Florida 2024-02-29 Denied IFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions disciplinary-proceedings due-process jurisdiction professional-conduct standing statutory-provisions supreme-court Question not identified.
23-747 Marylin Pierre v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2024-01-10 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived actual-malice civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline legal-ethics new-york-times-v-sullivan professional-conduct rules-of-professional-conduct Does the actual malice test of New York Times v. Sullivan protect lawyers' First Amendment rights in disciplinary proceedings?
23-127 Leonard Cooperman v. Social Security Administration Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation disciplinary-proceedings due-process free-speech public-sector-employment vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. Is the "conduct unbecoming " standard for subjecting an employee to disciplinary proceedings unconstitutionally vague, and therefore violative of t…
22-1061 Jonathan B. Andry v. Lawyer Disciplinary Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-review attorney-discipline disciplinary-proceedings district-court due-process fifth-circuit legal-rationale quasi-criminal quasicriminal-proceedings Does an appellate court violate an attorney's right to due process of law when it upholds a disciplinary violation in a quasicriminal proceeding on gr…
22-6584 Meghan M. Kelly v. United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Third Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied IFP case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection reciprocal-discipline religious-beliefs self-incrimination standing 1. Whether the Third Circuit's rule R.A.D.E. 16 violates Equal protections as applied to me as a party of one, as an attorney with religious political…
22-6033 Daniel A. Schillinger v. Josh Kiley, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-09 Denied IFP allow complaint amendment and exclude witnesses violates a prisoner's due p administrative-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process institutional-safety prison prison-disciplinary-proceedings witness witness-testimony 1) The DOG prison had failed to give me a copy of the video tape of the assault taking place on Sept. 17, 2015. 2) I did allege to the federal court…
22-5274 Joseph Covell Brown v. Marcus Porter, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process higher-education ministerial-tasks procedural-due-process qualified-immunity Whether the right to procedural due process in disciplinary proceedings involving suspension, expulsion or loss of housing in publicly funded institut…
21-6305 Eric Volk v. State Bar of California California 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence disciplinary-proceedings due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-representation professional-conduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement £*A 11 'FqiC/I/A c,1o$ji _1 CO^p/^/n^r On fi-H-O/'r'-exj /T)£ Lc^r*^^ Eroyur^, U/hes^ fh i^s eZ2and r*b d<*~ P^a rt-dClmhj <^/WZirods '? U&f*' l/fola…
21-5888 Wes Joseph Pertgen v. William Gittere, Warden Nevada 2021-10-05 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-hearing disciplinary-proceedings due-process due-process-violation evidence-disclosure habeas-corpus liberty-interest nevada Does Due Process and Liberty Interest exist in Nevada's Disciplinary Proceedings, and when Disciplinary Proceedings are Constituted is Due Process Vio…
21-283 In Re Roland N. Patterson 2021-08-27 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process reinstatement separation-of-powers substantive-due-process A) Whether Petitioner suffered the violation of his Constitutional Rights to Procedural Due Process when he was denied Reinstatement in 2012, without …
20-7226 John R. Scannell v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP disciplinary-proceedings first-amendment fourteenth-amendment investigation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction obstruction res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court unlawful-practice 1. Did the Washington State Supreme Court have jurisdiction conduct original disciplinary proceedings against Scanned for obstruction into an investig…
20-1083 Thomas Rossley, Jr. v. Drake University, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights college disability-discrimination disciplinary-proceedings due-process reasonable-accommodations title-ix university university-disciplinary-proceedings 1. Does the conflict in fact among the Circuits involving, on the one hand, Doe v. Purdue , 928 F.3d 652 (7th Cir. 2019) (Barrett, J.), Doe v. Univers…
20-874 David Lee Phillips v. State Bar of Nevada Nevada 2020-12-31 Denied african-american attorney-discipline constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process nevada-supreme-court procedural-fairness professional-conduct suspension withdrawal 1. Was Petitioner denied constitutional procedural due process of law by the Nevada Supreme Court in its "Order Approving Conditional Guilty Plea Agre…
20-6280 Deverick Scott v. Pamela Cook Eighth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-grievance retaliation some-evidence some-evidence-standard 1. Was inmate Scott engaged in an activity he was entitled to perform by writing a prisoner grievance explaining "3 months earlier he had set his cell…
19-1428 Tina L. Morin v. Montana Office of Disciplinary Counsel Montana 2020-07-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights disciplinary-counsel disciplinary-proceedings due-process Fourteenth-Amendment guardianship legal-ethics legal-representation professional-conduct right-to-counsel Did the COP violate Morin's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment when the COP ordered Morin suspended from practice for allegedly violati…
19-1193 Kristin D. Wilkinson v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline of the State Bar of Texas Texas 2020-04-02 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment attorney-discipline confidentiality confidentiality-statutes disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-ruffalo professional-rights property-rights Does the standard for assessing the protection of Due Process Clause rights of lawyers in disciplinary proceedings announced in In re Ruffalo, fail to…
19-7643 In Re Stephen Daniel Leonard 2020-02-12 Denied IFP 6th-amendment administrative-hearing administrative-procedure article-iv compulsory-process constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection judicial-proceedings liberty liberty-interest privileges-and-immunities witness-testimony 1.) Did the State of Florida violate Petitioner's protected rights to Judicial Proceedings under Article IV. Section 1, and Amendment 6; of the United…
19-698 Wendy Alison Nora v. Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility Minnesota 2019-12-04 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure disciplinary-proceedings due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-speech interpretation lower-court political-speech regulation standing Whether Petitioner was denied her Rights to Due Process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States when the Minne…
19-47 Jeryme Morgan v. Minh Schott, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-sentence disciplinary-proceedings due-process edwards-v-balisok heck-bar heck-v-humphrey mixed-sanctions non-durational-sanctions section-1983 When an inmate is penalized for a disciplinary infraction, prison officials may impose durational sanctions (e.g., revoking good-time credits) or nond…
18A1278 Melinda Maldonado v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2019-06-06 Denied attorney-grievance disciplinary-proceedings due-process judicial-misconduct legal-ethics professional-reputation Question not identified.
18-9165 Robert Warren v. Bobbette Ramage, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process prison prison-rulemaking rulemaking state-law 1. Whether or Not Erison Authorities failure toGallood State Law Procedures fer rula Making denies due proce 39. 2. Whether or Not Supreme Court case…
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…
18-5843 Alexander Manjanja Chanthunya v. Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission Maryland 2018-08-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline attorney-misconduct bar-counsel civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights cross-examination disciplinary-proceedings due-process fair-hearing judicial-review standing Whether Maryland Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's Petition, without opinion, that properly raised a constitutional issue regarding viola…