Legal Opinion
In Re Winthrop Drake Thies
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided October 24, 1980No. 79-2218PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion PER CURIAM.
2Per curiam
Appellant was disbarred by the United States Tax Court on August 9, 1979. The court relied exclusively on appellant’s 1978 automatic disbarment from the New York State courts, which followed his 1976 felony conviction for assaulting a federal officer. The sole issue on this appeal is whether the Tax Court’s exclusive reliance on the state disbarment was error.
In Selling v. Radford, 243 U.S. 46, 37 S.Ct. 377, 61 L.Ed. 585 (1917), the Supreme Court considered the effect of disbarment from state court in a federal disbarment action. The Court found that although admission to a…
3Cases cited7 opinions
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- Theard v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Selling v. RadfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
- In the Matter of the Petition of SellingSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
- In re ThiesNew York Court of Appeals · 1978
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