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Attorney And Client-Criticism Of Court As Ground For Disciplinary Action, Howard Jacobs

Michigan Law Review

Defendant, an attorney, while candidate for nomination to the office of Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming, wrote and circulated a pamphlet making false, contemptuous and scandalous charges against the court. He admitted in the pamphlet that he became a candidate for the sole purpose of attacking the court. Held, preparing and circulating such a pamphlet amounted to willful violation of defendant's duties as an attorney of the State of Wyoming, and constituted a legal cause for his suspension from practice for six months. State Board of Law Examiners v. Spriggs, (Wyo. 1945) 155 P. (2d) 285.