Opinion

In re Zohdy

  • 892 So. 2d 1277
  • 2005 WL 106472
Court
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Filed
Jan 19, 2005
Status
Published
Author
Calogero
On the bench
Calogero, Kimball, Lper, Reasons
Cited by
8 cases

lawyer who sought to intervene in chemical products liability class action violated rules of professional conduct by failing to investigate whether his clients were exposed to chemical

How later courts described this case

  • lawyer who sought to intervene in chemical products liability class action violated rules of professional conduct by failing to investigate whether his clients were exposed to chemical
  • evidence was sufficient to prove rape where the victim was the only person to testify to the facts of the crime

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

|! CALOGERO, Chief Justice,

dissents and assigns reasons.

I dissent from the sanction imposed by the majority. I believe the sanction chosen by the majority is excessive for the conduct of this conscientious, but perhaps non-proficient, attorney. I would impose a lesser sanction, perhaps as much as, but not more than, a one-year suspension from the practice of law.

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