disbar
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In addition to courts penalizing attorneys for inappropriate filings, bar association disciplinary authorities in multiple states have initiated proceedings to suspend or disbar those attorneys from practicing law in their jurisdictions.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2024
Maryland’s highest court unanimously voted to disbar Cassilly in 2021.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
The State Bar filed disciplinary charges against Yeghiayan and made an unsuccessful attempt to disbar his wife.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
“The plan was to disbar me so I wouldn’t be relevant, and that by and large happened,” he says.
From The Verge ● Mar. 10, 2022
At home, however, there have been repeated attempts to disbar Poe from the court of great writers.
From History of American Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post
Capitol also are among those “indicted, prosecuted, disbarred and/or jailed,” Kimball wrote.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
He has since been disbarred in New York and Washington.
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
He was disbarred as a lawyer in Washington DC and New York.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
Supervisor Janice Hahn called the practice of paying for plaintiffs “despicable” and said any attorney guilty of the practice “should be disbarred, and their share of the settlement should go to the victims of abuse.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
They’d have him disbarred; Bud Gleason would no doubt see that Hirsshorn foreclosed on his house.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
These associations are used to disbarring people who, say, defrauded their clients or were utterly incompetent in court over and over again, et cetera.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2025
The panel could recommend disbarring him, suspending his D.C. law license or formally censuring him.
From Reuters ● Dec. 15, 2022
And the same shortcomings are disbarring the country from attracting large-scale investments in renewables.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2015
Air Force’s suspending and disbarring official is monitoring Booz Allen’s handling of the Snowden” case, Dorrian said.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2013
Besides, there had been talk of disbarring him from the practice of his profession, and I, as a lawyer, had been urged to instigate that proceeding.
From The Boss of Little Arcady by Wilson, Harry Leon
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