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RAMSEY v. BD. OF PRO. RESP.

771 S.W.2d 116 (1989)

James Nelson RAMSEY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY OF the SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE, Respondent-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

Rehearing Denied May 22, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Foglesong, Foglesong, Cruz, Shope and Kerr, Knoxville, Roger M. Adelman, Ned I. Miltenberg, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Washington, D.C., for petitioner-appellant.

Tennessee Dist. Attys. Conference, Joe Baugh, President, amicus curiae.

William W. Hunt, III, Disciplinary Counsel, Nashville, for respondent-appellee.

OPINION

DROWOTA, Chief Justice.

Appellant, James Nelson Ramsey, the District Attorney General for Anderson County, has appealed the suspension of his law license for one-hundred and eighty (180) days. He raises four basic grounds as to why the Order of Suspension should not stand: (1) jurisdiction, (2) denial of due process, (3) constitutional right to free speech, and (4) the sufficiency of the evidence as a matter of law.

Appellant, a native of...

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