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MATTER OF COHEN

7 N.Y.2d 488 (1960)

In the Matter of Albert Martin Cohen, an Attorney, Appellant. Denis M. Hurley, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 1, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore Kiendl and David F. Price for appellant.

Denis M. Hurley, in person, Michael A. Castaldi and Michael Caputo for Denis M. Hurley, respondent.

Leonard B. Boudin for New York State Association of Plaintiffs' Trial Lawyers, amicus curiæ.

Emanuel Redfield for New York Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiæ.

David Scribner, Jonathan R. Goldberg and Herman B. Gerringer for National Lawyers Guild, amicus curiæ.

Henry Weiner, Allen Harris and Daniel J. McMahon for Co-ordinating Committee on Discipline of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and others, amici curiæ.

Judges DYE, FROESSEL, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE and FOSTER concur with Chief Judge DESMOND; Judge FULD dissents in a separate opinion.

DESMOND, Ch. J.

By an order of the Appellate Division, Second Department (one Justice dissenting) petitioner, admitted to the Bar in 1922, has been disbarred from the practice of law. The disbarment order was made after a hearing and on findings that he had refused to answer pertinent questions put to him during a "Judicial Inquiry and Investigation" (Judiciary Law, § 90) ordered by the Appellate Division...

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