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Zbigniew Rozbicki v. Chief Disciplinary Counsel

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Connecticut, No. SC 19796 · judgment September 5, 2017


Certiorari denied · May 29, 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

This Petition arises from the Conn. Supreme Court's affirmation of the trial court's decision suspending the Petitioner for four years for accusing two judges of bias and prejudice in Motions for their disqualification. The Statewide Grievance Committee, the Superior Court, and the Conn. Supreme Court refused to acknowledge, consider, or rule on the Petitioner's constitutional free speech and due process defenses raised throughout the grievance proceedings, trial and appeal, citing this Court's reliance on New York Times v. Sullivan, 376. U.S. 254(1964), Garrison v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 64 (1964), Landmark Communications v. Virginia, 435 U.S. 829 (1978), and their prodigies. The question presented is whether the Conn. Supreme Court's uncompromising rejection of this Court's rulings in the cited cases, intended to protect attorney's free speech under the First Amendment, has become such an accepted excuse among state and federal judges to punish attorney criticism of judges that it has reached such an oppressive level of abuse that it calls for this Court's curative supervision, intervention, and review?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Zbigniew S. Rozbicki

For respondent
Michael Kenneth Skold
Connecticut Office of the Attorney General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
17A756

Proceedings

  1. May 29 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. May 08 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/24/2018.
  3. Apr 30 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent Chief Disciplinary Counsel to respond filed.
  4. Mar 26 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 9, 2018)
  5. Jan 18 2018
    Application (17A756) granted by Justice Ginsburg extending the time to file until March 26, 2018.
  6. Jan 13 2018
    Application (17A756) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 23, 2018 to March 24, 2018, submitted to Justice Ginsburg.