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Robert P. Tuerk v. The Florida Bar

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC17-62 · judgment July 20, 2017

Certiorari denied · April 16, 2018

Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether the disbarment of an attorney with insufficient and infirm facts and without a hearing violates the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution? Whether the disbarment of an attorney with insufficient and infirm facts, a lack of procedural and substantive due process, and a lack of equal protection of the law is excessive punishment, which violates the Equal Protection Clause, the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause, and substantively the Due Process Clause?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Robert P. Tuerk

For respondent
M. Hope Keating
Greenberg Traurig, P.A

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

Jun 11 2018
Rehearing DENIED.
May 22 2018
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/7/2018.
May 11 2018
Petition for Rehearing filed.
Apr 16 2018
Petition DENIED.
Mar 21 2018
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/13/2018.
Mar 16 2018
Waiver of right of respondent The Florida Bar to respond filed.
Jan 10 2018
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 5, 2018)