an attorney could sue a state bar association to expunge a letter of admonition from his file since he would be required to explain the admonition if he applied to the bar in other states or for judicial appointments
How later courts described this case
- an attorney could sue a state bar association to expunge a letter of admonition from his file since he would be required to explain the admonition if he applied to the bar in other states or for judicial appointments
- lower federal courts will not review state court actions on lawyer discipline unless plaintiff mounts constitutional challenge to disciplinary sanctions imposed
- letter of admonition in attorney’s permanent record for which he is professionally accountable constitutes sufficient adverse consequences for Article III.
- federal court should not abstain in favor of administrative bar disciplinary proceedings
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
ALARCON, Circuit Judge,
specially con-
curring:
j concur in the result reached by the majority under compulsion of Monroe v. Pape, 365 U.S. 167 , 81 S.Ct. 473 , 5 L.Ed.2d 492 (1961), overruled in part, Monnell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658, 663 , 98 S.Ct. 2018, 2021 , 56 L.Ed.2d 611 (1978).