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Stephanie Lynn Soondar v. Supreme Court of Colorado
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Colorado, No. 2023SA165 · judgment July 5, 2023
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
The Constitution of the State of Colorado gives the Colorado Supreme Court exclusive jurisdiction over attorney regulation. With this authority the Colorado Supreme Court has created rules for attorney admission, including Rule 206 which permits the Colorado Supreme Court to waive or enforce any of its admission rules. Thereafter,
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Is it constitutional for the Colorado Supreme Court, in the exercise of its exclusive jurisdiction, to defy Federal Supreme Court precedent and the Federal Constitution? As a general matter, but specifically in regard to Petitioner Soondar’s Federal due process rights?
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Given the enormous request for audiences this Federal Supreme Court receives each year, and therefore the statistically improbable opportunity to li.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Stephanie Lynn Soondar
For respondent
Shannon Wells Stevenson
Colorado Department of Law
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jan 08 2024Petition DENIED.
- Dec 06 2023DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/5/2024.
- Dec 01 2023Waiver of right of respondents Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, Colorado Supreme Court to respond filed.
- Nov 30 2023Waiver of right of respondent Colorado to respond filed.
- Nov 13 2023Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 18, 2023)