Legal Opinion
Olitt v. Murphy
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 22, 1978No. 78 Civil 2140PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.
This is the fourth action instituted in this Court by plaintiff, an attorney who has been the subject of state bar disciplinary proceedings. In this, his latest action, he seeks to stay and void an order of the Appellate Division, First Department, suspending him from the practice of law for three years, which was entered upon a report of a Referee who had conducted a full evidentiary hearing. Plaintiff’s three prior actions, discussed hereafter in greater detail, were dismissed under the doctrine of abstention because of the still pending state…
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