The Florida Bar v. McCain

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the Bar is not “an independent agent,” so when dealing with the Bar’s disciplinary powers, “we are actually talking about our own authority”
• Supreme Court has jurisdiction to discipline attorney for acts occurring while such attorney held judicial office
• lawyer can be sanctioned for misconduct committed while previously serving as judge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).