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Legal Opinion · Dissent

In Re Haley

District Court, E.D. Arkansas

Decided July 20, 1999Published

1Dissent

DISSENT

GEORGE HOWARD, Jr., District Judge.

Today the Court deviates from our usual procedure of referring disciplinary matters to the Arkansas Supreme Court’s Committee on Professional Conduct and reprimands an attorney who has been convicted of a crime in federal court. Because this action is neither appropriate nor consistent with the Court’s actions in similar situations, I respectfully dissent.

I recognize that “every court has inherent authority to disbar or discipline attorneys for unprofessional conduct ...” Starr v. Mandanici, 152 F.3d 741, 751 (8th Cir.1998) (Beam, J. concurring in…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Theard v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
  2. United States v. Michael A. LipscombCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1983
  3. Dean v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1991
  4. United States v. Charles W. WilsonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1993
  5. In Re: Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr, United States Department of Justice v. Francis T. MandaniciCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1998

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