Ex Parte Bradley
Supreme Court of the United States
This case arose out of a petition by Joseph H. Bradley, .Esq., to this coúrt for the writ of mandamus, directed to the ' Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to restore him to the office of attorney and counsellor in said court, from which he alleged that he had been wrongfully removed by it on the 9th of November, 1867. It appeared that the said “ Supreme Court of the District of Columbia” had issued a rule against Mr. Bradley, reciting certain offensive language…
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This case arose out of a petition by Joseph H. Bradley, .Esq., to this coúrt for the writ of mandamus, directed to the ' Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to restore him to the office of attorney and counsellor in said court, from which he alleged that he had been wrongfully removed by it on the 9th of November, 1867. It appeared that the said “ Supreme Court of the District of Columbia” had issued a rule against Mr. Bradley, reciting certain offensive language which it alleged had been used by Mr. Bradley, at the previous June Term of the- “ criminal court,” to Mr. Justice Eisher,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
delivered the opinion of the court. ■
1 One of the grounds set up in the return'to the rule to show ■cause is, that .on the 10th of August, 1867, while Judge Fisher,'one. of the justices of the Supreme Court, was'holding a criminal court in this district, the. relator had been guilty of contemptuous language towards'the said judge in the progress of a trial.therein, and for which the said justice disbarred him from the privileges of attorney.and counsellor of the Supreme Court.- That, at the time of the coirimi-tting of the contempt,' Judge Fisher was holding, not a criminal, but a Supreme…
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