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In Re Robert K. Hudnall
Paid petition
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
May a State Supreme Court that is granted only appellate jurisdiction as a matter of law by the state constitution: Exercise personal jurisdiction without service of process on Petitioner which included no notice of charges, no hearing and no opportunity to be heard? Take unto itself subject matter jurisdiction over an issue through some vague belief in the inherent powers of the State Supreme Court to exceed its constitutional authority by acting as a court of original jurisdiction? Hold a secret hearing in absentia, allowing only prosecutorial submissions of evidence and issue a decision based on these submissions? Accept the General Counsel of the State Bar's unsupported word (hearsay) as evidence which was in turn based on a forged document that was not submitted to the court and was not even legally admissible in any court in the state under Georgia state law? Accept a conflict of interest in which those acting as prosecutors, the members of the Office of General Counsel of the State Bar, were actually employees of the Court, while denying Petitioner the right to have representatives at said secret hearing or to even know about the hearing?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Robert K. Hudnall
For respondent
Michael D. Hostetter
Nall & Miller, LLP
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Linked docket
18M94
Proceedings
- Apr 29 2019Petition DENIED.
- Apr 10 2019DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2019.
- Mar 18 2019Waiver of right of respondent The State Bar of Georgia to respond filed.
- Feb 19 2019Motion (18M94) for leave to proceed as a veteran Granted.
- Jan 16 2019MOTION (18M94) DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
- Dec 11 2018Motion (18M94) for leave to proceed as a veteran filed.
- Dec 11 2018Petition for a writ of mandamus filed. (Response due March 21, 2019)