Opinion

Heilprin v. Wisconsin Board of Attorney's Professional Responsibility

  • 506 U.S. 972
  • 113 S. Ct. 461
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Nov 9, 1992
Status
Published
Cited by
38 cases
Authority
More cited than 90.1%

attorney who had previously been suspended for sexual misconduct was subsequently disbarred when he directed sexually explicit comments and suggestive questions to two female clients during office conferences

How later courts described this case

  • attorney who had previously been suspended for sexual misconduct was subsequently disbarred when he directed sexually explicit comments and suggestive questions to two female clients during office conferences
  • agency’s interpretation accorded no deference because it was inconsistent and at odds with the clear intent of the statute
  • attorney who had previously been suspended indefinitely when he talked obscenely to clients, exposed himself, and touched female clients on chest and in pelvic area, State v. Heilprin, 59 Wis.2d 312, 207 N.W.2d 878 (1973

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

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