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Florida Bar v. Brownstein

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
A referee's report recommending that an individual be found guilty of professional misconduct and suspended from the practice of law for three years...

Florida Bar v. Walkden

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
A petition of the Florida Bar for contempt against an attorney is granted and the attorney is disbarred from The Florida Bar due in part to his...

Kalil v. Dep't of Agric.

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Banking Law, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
A decision temporarily suspending an employee of the Department of Agriculture due in part to his allegedly improper interference with ongoing...

California Dep't of Corr. v. California State Personnel Bd.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In case where defendant dismissed all disciplinary and dishonesty charges against plaintiff's employees for participating in a pyramid scheme wherein...

In re Timpone

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In an attorney disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct relating to mismanagement of client funds, receiving a loan from a client, and earlier...

In the Matter of a Member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Delaware: Tenenbaum

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
The laches defense is available in Delaware lawyer disciplinary proceedings. In an attorney disciplinary matter involving charges of professional...

Buser v. Raymond

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Health Law
In an action alleging that a state board's practice of using an absentee judge during physician disciplinary hearings violated plaintiff's due process...

Florida Bd. of Bar Examiners Re: M.B.S.

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
A decision denying an applicant admission to The Florida Bar is reaffirmed as the egregiousness and duration of his misbehavior, including a)...

Maloy v. Bd. of County Comm'rs of Leon County

Attorney's Fees, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law, Administrative Law
In an action brought by a county commissioner to recover legal fees incurred in defending an ethics complaint, summary judgment for the county-s Board...

Walker v. Bd. of Prof'l Eng'rs

Administrative Law, Ethics & Disciplinary Code
An order of the Board of Professional Engineers concluding, contrary to an ALJ, that negligence had been proven justifying a reprimand of appellant's...