United States Ninth Circuit

In a disbarred attorney's suit against the State Bar of California and various other parties challenging his disbarment and the Bar's ability to collect disbarment costs from him, grant of defendants' motions to dismiss and for judgment on the pleadings is affirmed where the retroactive application of the 2003 amendment to section 6080.10 of the California Business and Professions Code violates neither the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment nor the Ex Post Facto Clause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/27/2007
• Published 12/27/2007

Judges

• BEEZER, Circuit Judge:, Before: JEROME FARRIS, ROBERT R. BEEZER, and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Miguel Gadda, San Francisco, CA, plaintiff-appellant, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kevin V. Ryan, United States Attorney, Joann M. Swanson, Chief, Civil Division, and Edward A. Olsen, Assistant United States Attorney, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellees Board of Immigration Appeals, Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, Jennifer Barnes, Miriam Hayward, Alberto Gonzalez and Mimi S. Yam., Michael Von Loewenfeldt and Holly Hogan, San Francisco, CA;  Marie M. Moffat, Lawrence C. Yee and Colin P. Wong, Office of General Counsel, The State Bar of California, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellees The State Bar of California, Tracey McCormick and Betty Yung.