Legal Opinion · Concurrence

In Re the Civil Contempt Proceedings Concerning Richard

South Dakota Supreme Court

Decided August 21, 1985No. 14733Published

1ConcurrenceHenderson, Justice

(specially concurring).

In Finck v. Finck, 354 N.W.2d 198 (S.D.1984), we recently ruled on an abuse of discretion concerning a trial court’s refusal to permit an attorney to withdraw, holding that there was an abuse of discretion and citing the various Canons of Professional Conduct pertaining thereto. Here, we are confronted with the propriety of a trial court terminating an attorney-client relationship when both attorney and client object strenuously thereto. This case has a different dimension, for it comes before us on a writ of certiorari. There is a procedural nicety which we must…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Smith v. Superior CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1968
  2. United States v. Nathan George DinitzCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
  3. McKinnon v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1974
  4. Harling v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1978
  5. English v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1969

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