reciprocal-discipline
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-915 | Robert J. Murphy v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | attorney-suspension constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process legal-ethics reciprocal-discipline | Whether petitioner sustained his burden prohib iting United States Court of Appeals for Third Circuit exercising original jurisdiction from imposing… | |
| 25-196 | Cyrus Mark Sanai v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 attorney-discipline reciprocal-discipline state-court-jurisdiction statutory-immunity supremacy-clause | Under California 's State Bar Act as authoritively interpreted by California 's appellate courts, the State Bar, the California Supreme Court, and the… | |
| 22-7695 | Meghan Marie Kelly v. Pennsylvania Office of Disciplinary Counsel | Pennsylvania | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights due-process first-amendment reciprocal-discipline religious-freedom standing | 1. Whether there is subject matter jurisdiction under the applicable Pennsylvania subject matter jurisdiction statute 204 Pa. Code § 85.3, given my st… |
| 22-6783 | Meghan M. Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-02-15 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts bar-dues civil-rights disciplinary-action due-process first-amendment free-speech reciprocal-discipline religious-freedom | 1. Whether the Third Circuit abused its discretion by denying my Motion to stay the civil rights proceeding relating to civil rights violations agains… |
| 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… |
| 20-1795 | Gregory Melvin Haynes v. State Bar of California | California | 2021-06-24 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-discipline california-supreme-court clear-and-convincing-standard due-process reciprocal-discipline selling-v-radford summary-judgment | Does the California Reciprocal attorney discipline statute —Business and profession code 6049.1 - violate the standard set forth in Selling v Radfor… |
| 20-1666 | Ashton R. O'Dwyer, Jr. v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-disciplinary-proceeding civil-rights conflicts-of-interest due-process judicial-conflict-of-interest judicial-misconduct panel-member-disqualification procedural-fairness reciprocal-discipline recusal standing | Whether, prior to his participating in rendering decision in this reciprocal attorney disciplinary case, the failure of a Panel Member to disclose to … |
| 18-8745 | Louis Alfred Piccone v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-law civil-procedure pa-rde-216 patent selling-v-radford administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure patent patent-attorney-discipline professional-discipline reciprocal-discipline statutory-interpretation | When underlying USPTO disciplinary proceedings are conducted according to regulations which abolish both 35 U.S.C. § 24's mandated discovery under the… |
| 18-104 | Robert Philip Tuerk v. The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection freedom-of-travel freedom-to-travel prior-restraint reciprocal-discipline | 1. Whether the reciprocal upon reciprocal discipline of disbarment of an attorney by his home state that originally disciplined him for one (1) year a… |