Cuyahoga County Bar Ass'n v. Okocha

Respondent has suggested that because he recently filed for bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Northern District of Ohio, Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code (Section 362, Title 11, U.S.Code) *6operates automatically to stay this disciplinary proceeding. This proposition fails. Section 362(b)(4), Title 11, U.S.Code specifically exempts from the bankruptcy stay “an action or proceeding by a governmental unit to enforce such governmental unit’s police or regulatory power.” This court is a governmental unit; our actions to regulate the bar are an exercise of our regulatory…