lawyer-discipline
10 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… | |
| 25-557 | Donald T. Trinen v. Supreme Court of Colorado | Colorado | 2025-11-06 | Denied | Response Waived | cle-compliance due-process equal-protection judicial-review lawyer-discipline suspension-order | Diversity, equity, and inclusion ("DEI ") continuing legal education ("cle") is required for Colorado lawyers. Attorney petitioner Donald Trinen ("Tri… |
| 23-261 | Henry L. Klein v. Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel | Louisiana | 2023-09-18 | Denied | administrative-agency administrative-procedure axon-enterprise-v-ftc constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review lawyer-discipline meaningful-judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct sec-v-cochran | After FNBC Bank was closed by regulators at a $1 Billion loss, FDIC sold the bank's loans in a secondary market at deep discounts. Girod LoanCo, creat… | |
| 23A96 | Henry Klein v. Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel | Louisiana | 2023-08-01 | Denied | administrative-adjudication appointments-clause due-process lawyer-discipline non-article-iii-officers separation-of-functions | Question not identified. | |
| 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… | |
| 21-1343 | Victor R. Marshall v. Supreme Court of New Mexico | New Mexico | 2022-04-11 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal lawyer-discipline legal-ethics professional-conduct standing | Does the First Amendment permit a state to suspend a lawyer from practice indefinitely because it found statements in a motion, in which the lawyer so… |
| 20-7905 | Christopher K. Skagen v. Oregon State Bar | Oregon | 2021-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | client-privacy constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-standard lawyer-discipline procedural-due-process substantive-due-process | 1. For a judgment to be enforced, the originating statute must not just state 'judgment, ' as in BR 3.5(a) but it must also state 'and a court of a fo… |
| 20-7557 | Wendy Alison Nora v. Office of Lawyer Regulation | Wisconsin | 2021-03-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding lawyer-discipline mortgage-foreclosure petition standing | Whether Petitioner was denied procedural due process in the lawyer disciplinary proceeding. Whether Petitioner is being denied due process in the law… |
| 20-1274 | Richard G. Wern v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct | South Carolina | 2021-03-15 | Denied | Response Waived | disciplinary-counsel due-process lawyer-discipline legal-ethics professional-conduct public-protection punitive sanction supreme-court unannounced-standard | Did the South Carolina Supreme Court deny Petitioner Richard G. Wern of due process of law by disbarring him based on a previously unannounced standar… |
| 18-538 | Wendy A. Nora v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation | Wisconsin | 2018-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | due-process due-process-clause exculpatory-evidence fair-hearing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discipline petition-for-redress petition-rights procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether a lawyer can be disciplined based on evidence known by the state to be false and when the state suppresses exculpatory evidence. Whether the … |