United States Ninth Circuit

Federal law does not preempt the California Supreme Court's authority to suspend or disbar attorneys admitted to practice in California state courts; such discipline orders may serve as the basis for reciprocal disbarment actions by both the BIA and this court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/01/2004
• Published 04/01/2004

Judges

• Before BEEZER, THOMAS, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Miguel D. Gadda, Esq., San Francisco, CA, pro se, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jocelyn Burton, Esq. and Robert Yeargin, Esq., Assistant United States Attorneys, San Francisco, CA, and David J. Kline, Esq. and Hugh G. Mullane, Esq., United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for respondents-appellees John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General, and Board of Immigration Appeals.