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Holly Gail Crampton v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline of the State Bar of Texas

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Texas, Eighth District, No. 08-15-00074-CV · judgment December 14, 2016

Certiorari denied · June 18, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

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

Question presented

Whether Rule 3.08 C. of the Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure is unconstitutional because it permits a lawyer’s license to practice law to be suspended and/or the lawyer disbarred based upon a “preponderance of the evidence?” Whether a summary judgment procedure in a lawyer discipline case which does not permit the lawyer to call live witnesses under oath satisfies the right to a meaningful hearing under the procedural due process guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
James Harry Brannon

For respondent
Matthew J. Greer

Case

Subject area
Attorneys (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Orders
Order list, June 18, 2018 · Certiorari denied
Miscellaneous order, August 24, 2018 · Rehearing denied

Proceedings

  1. Aug 24 2018
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Aug 02 2018
    DISTRIBUTED.
  3. Jul 13 2018
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Jun 18 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  5. May 29 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/14/2018.
  6. May 16 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent Commission for Lawyer Discipline to respond filed.
  7. May 03 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 8, 2018)