Surrick v. Killion

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• holding that \the threat of sanctions [wa]s sufficiently real and substantial\ because the Office of Disciplinary Counsel's position was clearly supported by directly on-point and binding precedent
• noting that the party seeking a declaratory judgment need not have “suffered a completed harm”
• finding adversity of interest where attorney was deterred from opening an office by “substantial threat of sanctions” from bar association
• finding the threat of sanctions deterring an attorney from opening a law office “sufficiently real and substantial to satisfy” the adversity of parties’ interest prong
• “Accordingly, we conclude that the threat of sanctions is sufficiently real and substantial to satisfy the first prong of the Step-Saver inquiry.”
• “[Decisions of the federal district courts and courts of appeals, including those of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, are not binding on [state] courts.”

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