CZURA v. SUPREME COURT OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Civ. A. No. 3:85-3030-15.

632 F.Supp. 267 (1986)

Walter Murphy CZURA, Plaintiff, v. The SUPREME COURT OF SOUTH CAROLINA AS COMMITTEE ON RULES OF ADMISSION TO PRACTICE OF LAW IN the State of SOUTH CAROLINA BY Honorable Julius B. NESS, Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and in His Individual Capacity; Honorable George T. Gregory, Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and in His Individual Capacity; Honorable David W. Harwell, Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and in His Individual Capacity; Honorable A. Lee Chandler, Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and in His Individual Capacity; Honorable Ernest A. Finney, Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and in His Individual Capacity; Committee on Character and Fitness of the South Carolina Supreme Court by, Honorable Joseph W. Hudgens, Chairman, and in His Individual Capacity; Honorable C. Dexter Powers, Member and in His Individual Capacity; Honorable Nathaniel L. Barnwell, Member and in His Individual Capacity; Honorable Jeter E. Rhodes, Jr., Member and in His Individual Capacity; Honorable Thomas W. Thomas, Member and in His Individual Capacity, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

March 7, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon P. Thames, Columbia, S.C., for plaintiff.

Richard B. Kale, Columbia, S.C., for defendants.


HAMILTON, District Judge.

This is a civil rights action, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in which the plaintiff, a disbarred attorney, seeks injunctive and declaratory relief that certain disciplinary measures adopted by the defendant Supreme Court of South Carolina violate his constitutional rights. The defendants are the justices of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, and the members, and Committee on Character and Fitness of the South Carolina Supreme...

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