Lawyer Disciplinary Board v. Patrick Doheny

FILED June 10, 2022 No. 18-0363 – Lawyer Disciplinary Board v. Doheny released at 3:00 p.m. EDYTHE NASH GAISER, CLERK SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA WOOTON, J., dissenting: As the majority correctly observes, this Court declared private discipline of attorneys in West Virginia unconstitutional in 1984 as a violation of the open courts provision of the West Virginia Constitution art. III, § 17. See Daily Gazette Co. v. Comm. on Legal Ethics of the W. Va. State Bar, 174 W. Va. 359,

326 S.E.2d 705

(1984). Accordingly, when thereafter crafting the Rules of Lawyer Disciplinary Procedure,…