In re Bailey

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• attorney disbarred for giving false testimony under oath, misappropriating Ghent’s funds, violating court orders, revealing client confidences, comminghng funds, and self-dealing
• fact that false testimony did not have material effect on proceedings did not “serve to mitigate the seriousness of [the] violation”
• “An attorney’s giving false testimony under oath, by itself, can justify disbarment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• In re Hilson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-03-27· cited 49×
• In re Cobb
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-12-08· cited 36×
• In re Brauer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-07-28· cited 25×
• In re Barrett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-08-16· cited 17×
• F. Lee Bailey v. Board of Bar Examiners
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2014-04-10· cited 10×
• McLaughlin v. Amirsaleh
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2006-04-03· cited 8×
• In re Finneran
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-01-11· cited 7×
• In re Steinberg
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-04-05· cited 6×
• In re Balliro
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-01-15· cited 6×
• F. Lee Bailey v.
  First Circuit· 2006-06-09· cited 3×
• In re Mitrano
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-05-22· cited 2×
• In the Matter of Moran
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-04-20
• In the Matter of Rosenberg
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2023-02-23
• In the Matter of Hayes
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2023-11-10
• In the Matter of Correll
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2024-04-29
• In the Matter of Edward A. Sargent
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2025-09-03

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Monsanto
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-22· cited 461×
• United States v. Bailey
  Eleventh Circuit· 1999-05-14· cited 96×
• In the Matter of Saab
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-12-18· cited 68×
• In the Matter of the Discipline of an Attorney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-08-20· cited 55×
• In re Fordham
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-08-09· cited 34×
• In re Schoepfer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-12-03· cited 29×
• In re Kerlinsky
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-01-14· cited 25×
• In re Eisenhauer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-01-14· cited 24×
• In the Matter of Dawkins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-03-02· cited 22×
• In the Matter of Kerlinsky
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-11-13· cited 22×
• In the Matter of Pike
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-12-04· cited 21×
• Bailey v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2002-11-21· cited 20×
• The Florida Bar v. Bailey
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-21· cited 16×
• In re Cohen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-08-28· cited 15×
• In re Lebbos
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-11-13· cited 10×
• In re Watt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-10-06· cited 10×
• In re Budnitz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-07-09· cited 9×
• In the Matter of McCabe
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-12-23· cited 6×
• In the Matter of Carrigan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-02-23· cited 6×
• In re Goldberg
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-07-18· cited 6×