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Margaret Jean Lowery v. Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Association
IFP petition · Supreme Court of Oklahoma, No. SCBD 8075 · judgment June 24, 2026
Questions presented
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Whether a receiving State may impose summary reciprocal discipline when the originating State never adjudicated preserved challenges to jurisdiction, charging authority, due process, Title II access, and attribution, and the receiving State declines independent constitutional review under Selling v. Radford.
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Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits ex post jurisdiction by status (historic admission in one state with continuing licensure in another), where no adjudicated jurisdictional nexus connected the originating State to a retired attorney’s post-retirement, out-of-state conduct, and the receiving State thereafter sustained the originating State’s authority based upon historical admission and continuing licensure in another State.
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Whether Titles II and V of the Americans with Disabilities Act permit a State to deny a disabled attorney direct access by treating private counsel as the accommodation, and then to use the resulting exclusion or the invocation of accommodation rights adversely.
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Whether, before professional discipline may be imposed for speech, the State must establish through constitutionally adequate process both authorship and the actual content of the statement being punished.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Ronald David Wilkinson
For respondent
Gina L. Hendryx
Oklahoma Bar Association
Case
Subject area
Attorneys (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, October 19, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 19 2026Petition DENIED.
- Oct 01 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/16/2026.
- Sep 23 2026Waiver of right of respondent Oklahoma Bar Association, et al. to respond filed.
- Sep 18 2026Motion to Amend Petition for Certiorari of Margaret Lowery not accepted for filing. (September 28, 2026)
- Sep 18 2026Amended Appendix of Margaret Lowery not accepted for filing. (September 28, 2026)
- Aug 18 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 25, 2026)