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Supreme Court· 6/17/1957

Theard v. United States

Citations

  • 354 U.S. 278
  • 77 S. Ct. 1274
  • 1 L. Ed. 2d 1342
  • 1957 U.S. LEXIS 656

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.\

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Judges: Frankfurter, Black, Whittaker

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