Theard v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing inherent power of district courts to promulgate and enforce rules concerning disbarment of attorneys
• describing lawyer as “an officer of the court, and, like the court itself, an instrument or agency to advance the ends of justice”
• stating that disbarment is a necessary power to protect the public
• suspending an attorney although no action had taken by the state court
• finding state court disbarment decision “brings title deeds of high respect ... [b]ut it is not conclusively binding on the federal courts,” and concluding that federal court disbarment in that case was foreclosed by the “grave reason” prong of Selling
• \The court's control over a lawyer's professional life derives from his relation to the responsibilities of a court.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).