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'Lanre O. Amu v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Illinois, No. M.R. 026545 · judgment July 9, 2021


Certiorari denied · January 18, 2022
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

  1. Whether in light of the public Oaths taken in The Name of God to faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office, the seven Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court are not paying lip service to racial justice in Illinois, and are not tacitly condoning racism, race (black) and national origin (Nigeria) dis­ crimination and xenophobia, against the Petitioner, ‘Lanre 0. Amu, a black African-immigrant attorney, that they suspended from the practice of law since 2013, for filing ethics complaints that in their narrative impugned the integrity of Judge Lynn M. Egan and others, when nobody took an Oath to articulate any wrongdoing by the Petitioner at the “adversarial” attorney disciplinary hearing orchestrated to suspend his law license.

  2. Whether the Respondent, the IARDC, has the authority to commence disciplinary proceedings against the Petitioner to gain the upper-hand in their dispute, to discredit the Petitioner, and to get the Petitioner suspended from the practice of law, because the Petitioner refused to go along with the IARDC’s refusal to investigate Petitioner’s July 21, 2011 ethics complaint against IARDC’s cronies, and because Petitioner threatened to sue the IARDC in the federal court and to also report the matter to the U.S. Depart­ ment of Justice, when Crain’s Chicago Business’ March 1, 2014 independent investigative report later confirmed in toto the merits, the sanctity, and the truth of the tip of the iceberg of Petitioner’s July 21, 2011 ethics complaint that IARDC had denied, suppressed, and claimed was false to get Petitioner suspended from the practice of law.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
'Lanre O. Amu

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 18 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 29 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/14/2022.
  3. Nov 12 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 17, 2021)