Supreme Court order list from July 22. A typical “summer” order list disposing of routine requests for rehearings and other matters.
At the bottom I noticed a single attorney discipline order, so just for the hell of it I looked it up. For the United States Supreme Court, it is a routine reciprocal disbarment proceeding.
Nothing unusual.
https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/55259
Except, that the guy’s California law license was permanently revoked on March 13, 2009. Over 15 years ago. For all I know, the guy might be dead by now.
And the Supreme Court is just now getting around to reciprocal disbarment. Something is wrong with this picture.
Then there was the case of the Supreme Court trying to disbar the President of the Massachusetts State Bar, who they had confused with another attorney in Vermont.
There needs to be an integrated attorney database, so that when an attorney is disciplined or disbarred, it immediately shows up at all Federal and State Courts, for the correct attorney. And there needs to be a procedure for automatic reciprocal disbarment in the Federal Courts.
15 years to reciprocally disbar somebody is kind of ridiculous.
