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Wendy A. Nora v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Wisconsin, No. 2013AP653-D · judgment March 30, 2018
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether a lawyer can be disciplined based on evidence known by the state to be false and when the state suppresses exculpatory evidence. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires a full hearing before an unbiased tribunal in a lawyer disciplinary matter. Whether lawyer disciplinary proceedings may punish a lawyer for exercising the right to Petition the Judiciary for Redress of Grievances under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Wendy Alison Nora
For respondent
Paul W. Schwarzenbart
Stafford Rosenbaum LLP
Proceedings
- Feb 19 2019Rehearing DENIED.
- Jan 30 2019DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
- Jan 16 2019Motion to defer consideration of the petition for rehearing filed by petitioner.
- Dec 28 2018Petition for Rehearing filed.
- Dec 03 2018Petition DENIED.
- Nov 07 2018DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/30/2018.
- Oct 26 2018Waiver of right of respondent Office of Lawyer Regulation to respond filed.
- Oct 12 2018Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 23, 2018)
- Oct 11 2018Application (18A254) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until October 12, 2018.
- Oct 09 2018Application (18A254) to extend further the time from October 10, 2018 to October 12, 2018, submitted to Justice Kagan.
- Oct 05 2018Application (18A254) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until October 10, 2018.
- Sep 19 2018Application (18A254) to extend further the time from September 20, 2018 to October 10, 2018, submitted to Justice Kagan.
- Sep 12 2018Application (18A254) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until September 20, 2018.
- Sep 07 2018Application (18A254) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 10, 2018 to September 20, 2018, submitted to Justice Kagan.