Legal Opinion
Linda A. Leaf and Andrew B. Haynes v. Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, Board of Attorneys Professional Responsibility, Gerald Sternberg
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 12, 1992No. 91-3725PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr.,-Senior Circuit Judge.
What promised to be a routine, though unfortunate, attorney disciplinary proceeding has led us into a procedural thicket involving abstention, the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, res judicata, and the Eleventh Amendment. We shall now attempt to extricate ourselves, and in so doing, we shall affirm in part and reverse and remand in part the decision below.
I. BACKGROUND
Linda Leaf is an attorney practicing in Milwaukee. In 1991 the Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended Leafs license to practice law for six months. See In re Disciplinary Proceedings Against Leaf,…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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3Cited by83 opinions
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