professional-responsibility

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24A328 Good Lawgic, LLC, et al. v. Juan M. Merchan, Justice, New York State Supreme Court, New York County New York 2024-10-04 Presumed Complete first-amendment judicial-sanctions legal-ethics media-litigation professional-responsibility trial-court-conduct Question not identified.
23-7798 Evan C. Wilhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP christeson-v-roper conflict-of-interest counsel-performance cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics prejudice-presumption presumption-of-prejudice professional-reputation professional-responsibility Whether prejudice should be presumed when a conflict of interest forces Counsel to choose between denigrating their own performance on behalf of their…
23-5541 Mark A. Hartle v. New York New York 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-inquiry professional-ethics professional-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel trial-strategy Is a criminal defendant denied their right to effective assistance of counsel when there are indications, of which the defendant was unaware, that tri…
23-5220 Amy Jacquelyn Harkins v. Citizens Bank Second Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied IFP administrative-law attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law crime-fraud-exception evidence judicial-review legal-procedure professional-responsibility statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
22-7789 Douglas Manning v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied IFP case-merits civil-rights defendant-justification due-process harmful-consequences ineffective-assistance legal-excuses legal-malpractice plaintiff-claims procedural-grounds professional-responsibility standing I] bcfe'idan '] $o $,t\ck<2k\c> The harmful consequence +e>~he PjatViiifF+W't Wt 5h&uld be h^M flQ6w(l5 1h 2 fof if ?9 II] i^o5-f)^efe any 6rpiwd orl…
22-6852 Marvin Charles Gabrion, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied IFP adverse-witness attorney-client-privilege attorney-representation civil-procedure conflict-of-interest formal-appearance legal-ethics professional-conduct professional-responsibility standing Can an attorney who provides legal advice to counsel of record without filing a formal appearance in the case have a conflict of interest if the attor…
22-5257 Daryl Stephen v. New York New York 2022-08-02 Denied IFP attorney-conduct attorney-misconduct civil-procedure damages legal-ethics legal-malpractice professional-responsibility professional-standards standing tort-law Legal malpractice by petitioner attorney Contravenion of the law
21-5750 Richard A. Waite v. Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility New Hampshire 2021-09-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure bar-regulations civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process ethical-rules judicial-standards lawyer-conduct legal-ethics professional-responsibility standing Is conflicted cansel- Actual/Real conflict of intrest ineffective Counsel? And aviolation of Constitutional Rights? Do ABA (or state eQvivilent> ethi…
20-8207 Bernier Gerard Jackson v. Florida Florida 2021-06-02 Denied IFP best-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer professional-responsibility right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel requires counsel to advise his client to accept a plea offer which is clearly…
20-5500 Valentin Spataru v. Pedro Antonio Suarez, et al. Florida 2020-08-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct legal-ethics pro-se-litigation procedural-rules professional-responsibility standing Whether Florida judges may disregard my filings and prior cases, and may not exercise the standard of care requested by law and expected from professi…
19-8894 Michael Halliburton v. Board of Professional Responsibility Tennessee 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct legal-ethics party-standing procedural-rights procedural-rules professional-responsibility substantive-rights A. Should the determinations of the Board of Judicial Conduct — responsible by Statute and by the Tennessee Supreme Court Rules for maintaining the in…
19-8434 Audrey Jean Ukkerd v. State Bar of California California 2020-05-12 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct civil-rights due-process fraud legal-ethics medical-evaluation professional-responsibility settlement-conference workers-compensation 1. Why did Attorney Michael Siegel, state that, "The State Bar of California states that, in your complaint . (Audrey J. Ukkerd), you assert that you…
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…
19-6916 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…
19-6427 Ray A. Smith v. John Chapdelaine, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP charging-document criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions professional-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence 1. As representatives of the Office of Public Defender, did lawyers Willie Rios and Eric Zale, fufill their professional responsibilities and obligati…
19-5725 Charles Rochester v. The Fortune Society Second Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-act civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest document-tampering due-process eeoc-review equal-employment fraud-upon-the-court jurisdictional-challenge obstruction-of-justice professional-responsibility retaliation tampering-with-documents whistleblower 1. Did the United State District Court as well as the United States Second Circuit of Appeals erred for not doing their duty to hold a hearing on juri…
18-8012 Tasha Michelle Blackburn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-communication criminal-procedure due-process duty-to-advise ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-acceptance plea-bargaining plea-negotiations professional-responsibility sixth-amendment What donstitutes communicating a plea, and does counsel have an obligation to recommend accepting a plea, or rejecting a plea and proceeding to trial?
18-5209 Michael Barrett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship conflict-of-interest constructive-denial-of-counsel impermissible-risk ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion professional-ethics professional-responsibility right-to-counsel standard-of-review Does it create a conflict of interest for a lawyer to have to argue on appeal that the trial court should have replaced him? Can this create an imperm…