In Re Morrell

How courts have described this case

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

• “Nothing in the text of the rules, however, specifies the result of a Hearing Committee’s failure to adhere to the time limit, so we presume that the rule is directory, rather than mandatory.”
• “It would hardly serve the integrity of the bar . . . to allow [respondent] to avoid the imposition of discipline for his serious ethical violations merely because the Hearing Committee took a long time carefully evaluating the substantial, complex evidence in his case.”
• “It would hardly serve the integrity of the bar . . . to allow [respondent] to avoid the imposition of discipline for his serious ethical violations merely because the Hearing Committee took a long time carefully evaluating the substantial, complex evidence in his case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).