Tweedy v. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n

OPALA, Justice:

The single first-impression issue here is whether the Supreme Court — the state government’s organ acting in both the legislative and adjudicative capacity when exercising its constitutionally-derived responsibility for the control and regulation of the practice of law and for the licensing and ethics of legal practitioners — may cast itself in the added role of the bar discipline’s ultimate enforcer by commanding the pros-ecutorial arm of the state bar agency (the Professional Responsibility Commission of the Oklahoma Bar Association) to conduct a second re-investigation of a…