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Robert J. Murphy v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern District, No. 2649 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 · judgment December 19, 2019


Certiorari denied · May 26, 2020
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

To the Chief Justices and Associate Justices of the United States Supreme Court

  1. Whether petitioner, Robert Murphy, had fair warning as to reach of disciplinary proceedings and precise nature of charges that petitioner’s adminis­ trative and extraordinary Workers’ Compensation recusal proceedings in pending contested Workers’ Compensation proceedings in 2010 (hereinafter recu­ sal proceedings) based on Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act 77 P.S. Section 2504 violated Penn­ sylvania Rules of Professional Conduct 3.1, 3.3(a)(1), 8.2(a), 8.4(c), 8.4(d) based on Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s erroneous retroactive application of its newly enacted 2014 Judicial Code which is plainly effective only on and after July 1, 2014 involving only elected judges in violation of petitioner’s fundamental constitu­ tional rights including due process and equal protection guaranteed under the First and Fourteenth Amend­ ments to the United States Constitution.

  2. Whether Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s co­ mingled accusatory and adjudicative functions based on pre-determined conclusion that petitioner’s subject recusal proceedings and other alleged unrelated non­ existent ethical violations violate petitioner’s funda­ mental right to due process and equal protection.

  3. Whether Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s final biased fiat order entered 12/19/2019 denying peti­ tioner’s petition for review pursuant to Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board’s arbitrary, irrational and biased recommendations involving ODC’s continuous, inten­ tional, egregious prosecutorial misconduct suspend­ ing petitioner from Pennsylvania Bar for a period of

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Robert J. Murphy

For respondent
Michael D. Gottsch
Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the Supreme Cour

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. May 26 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. May 05 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/21/2020.
  3. Apr 17 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent Office of Disciplinary Counsel to respond filed.
  4. Mar 18 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 22, 2020)