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Mike Singh Sethi v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 24-4790 · judgment June 3, 2026
(petition-stage, structural)
Well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether the Fifth Amendment and Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 46 permit a court of appeals to suspend an attorney based materially on alleged violations that were not identified in a supplemental disciplinary charge and the attorney was never afforded an opportunity to defend against them as charges.
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Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 47(b) permits a court of appeals to suspend an attorney for violating a specific requirement—announced in the final disciplinary decision—that an attorney correcting inaccurate citations must disclose the citations’ technological source, where that requirement was not previously contained in federal law, the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, the circuit’s local rules, or an actual-notice order in the case.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Anthony Cornelius Gunst IV
Nissenbaum Law Group, LLC
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Subject area
Attorneys (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Oct 14 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/6/2026.
- Sep 18 2026Waiver of right of respondent Federal Respondents to respond filed.
- Sep 01 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 8, 2026)