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Larry Edward Parrish v. Board of Professional Responsibility

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Tennessee, Western Division, No. W2017-00889-SC-R3-BP · judgment August 14, 2018


Certiorari denied · February 19, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

Questions presented

This case presents the following issues:

  1. Should the judgment of the Tennessee Supreme Court below be reversed because the Tennessee Supreme Court arbitrarily punished Petitioner/ lawyer as if his “pure speech” was “nonspeech” and/ or “incidental speech?”

  2. Should the judgment of the Tennessee Supreme Court below be reversed because, in the below quasicriminal proceedings,1 the Tennessee Supreme Court employed a standard that fails to meet minimum Fourteenth Amendment due process requirements (notice and a fair trial) and the prerequisite First Amendment requirements necessary before the false statement exception to free speech is invokable?

  3. Should the judgment of the Tennessee Supreme Court be reversed because the combination of the Rules of Professional Conduct, Model Rule 8.2(a)(1) (hereinafter “Rule 8.2(a)(1)”), combined with the socalled “objective standard,” with its fictitious so-called “reasonable attorney” standard, combined with American Bar Association Standards For Imposing Lawyer Sanctions (hereinafter “ABA Standards”) section 6.12 (infra at 7 n.2; at 7-8; App. pp. 15-17, 29-32, 59-64, 66, 70, 76; RoA Vol. 20, AR Vol. 18, Tr. Ex. 7), made it impossible, in advance of Petitioner/lawyer penning the words in the recusal motion, to know that using the words for which Petitioner/lawyer has been sanctioned by suspension 1 In re Ruffalo, 390 U.S. 544, 551 (1968).

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Larry Edward Parrish
Parrish Lawyers, P.C.

For respondent
Talmage Mims Watts
Office of the Tennessee Attorney General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
18A516

Proceedings

  1. Feb 19 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 30 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
  3. Jan 22 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent TN Supreme Court Bd. of Professional Responsibility to respond filed.
  4. Jan 02 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 6, 2019)
  5. Nov 15 2018
    Application (18A516) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until January 4, 2019.
  6. Nov 13 2018
    Application (18A516) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 26, 2018 to January 4, 2019, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.