OLITT v. MURPHY

No. 78 Civil 2140.

453 F.Supp. 354 (1978)

J. Jerome OLITT, Plaintiff, v. Francis T. MURPHY, Jr., Individually as Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Judicial Department, and as Administrator concerning the conduct of members of the New York Bar, Arthur Markewich, Myles J. Lane, Samuel J. Silverman, Harold Birns, Joseph P. Sullivan, Theodore R. Kupferman, Herbert Evans, Arnold Fein, Leonard Sandler and Vincent A. Lupiano, Individually, as Associate Justices of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Judicial Department and as Administrators concerning the conduct of members of the New York Bar, Joseph J. Lucchi, Individually and as Clerk of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Judicial Department, James D. Porter, Jr., Individually and as Counsel to the Committee on Grievances of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Judicial Department, Sheldon Oliensis, Individually and as Chairman of the Committee on Grievances of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and William E. Jackson, Richard Kuh, Lola S. Lea, Matthew J. Mallow, Archibald R. Murray, Alfred J. Scotti, William B. O'Brien, Angelo T. Cometa, Emelio P. Gautier, John Donovan, Steven J. Stein, M. Moran Weston, John G. McGoldrick, Geoffrey M. Kalmus, Martin London, Donald B. Straus, Edward J. Babb, John W. Castles III, Edwin J. Wesley, Haywood Burns, Evelyn Halpert, Selvyn Seidel, Helene M. Barnette, John H. Doyle III, William J. Gilbreth, David Ramage, Jr., Alvin H. Schulman, Individually and as members of the Committee on Grievances of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

May 22, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Jerome Olitt, pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City, for defendant Justices; A. Seth Greenwald, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel.

Saul Friedberg, New York City, for defendants James D. Porter, Jr. and Committee on Grievances.


OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

This is the fourth action instituted in this Court by plaintiff, an attorney who has been the subject of state bar disciplinary proceedings. In this, his latest action, he seeks to stay and void an order of the Appellate Division, First Department, suspending him from the practice of law for three years, which was entered upon a report of a Referee who had conducted a full evidentiary hearing. Plaintiff's three prior...

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