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Erik Cooper v. Tennessee, et al.
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Tennessee, Middle Division, No. M2023-01000-SC-BAR-BP · judgment May 15, 2024
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether the public can maintain trust or confidence in a state supreme court if the court ignores its own rules and its agency’s own policies and rules governing the investigation of disciplinary complaints.
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Whether a state court can ignore public reports of its agency’s violations of court rules and the agency’s policies and rules during the administration of disciplinary complaints.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Erik Cooper
For respondent
Kristen A. Bell
Office of the Tennessee Attorney General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Linked docket
24M48
Proceedings
- Mar 10 2025Petition DENIED.
- Feb 19 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/7/2025.
- Jan 17 2025Waiver of right of respondent State of Tennessee, et al. to respond filed.
- Jan 13 2025Motion (24M48) for leave to file a petition for a writ of certiorari with the supplemental appendix under seal Granted
- Dec 18 2024MOTION (24M48) DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2025.
- Aug 11 2024Motion of petitioner for leave to file a petition for a writ of certiorari with the supplemental appendix under seal filed.
- Aug 11 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 13, 2025)