Rose J. Spano v. Michael Satz

Rose J. Spano was suspended and ultimately disbarred from the practice of law in Florida. She brought a suit in federal court alleging, among other things, that the procedures resulting in her suspension and disbarment, and the rules that governed those procedures, deprived her of due process and equal protection. Among those she sued were the Justices of the Florida Supreme Court. The district court granted the Justices’s motion to dismiss Spano’s claims against them for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Spano appeals that order. 1

We review de novo a district court’s resolution of a…