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LOUISIANA STATE BAR ASS'N v. SANDERS

No. 89-B-1781.

568 So.2d 1025 (1990)

LOUISIANA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION v. Martin S. SANDERS, Jr.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied December 13, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas O. Collins, G. Fred Ours, for Louisiana State Bar Ass'n plaintiff-applicant.

Martin S. Sanders, Jr., Leonard Fuhrer, Charles Raymond Whitehead, Jr., for Martin S. Sanders, Jr. defendant-respondent.

WATSON, Justice.

In this disciplinary proceeding against attorney Martin S. Sanders, Jr., the issue is the appropriate sanction for Sanders' violation of Disciplinary Rule 5-103(A)1 which prohibited2 a lawyer from acquiring a proprietary interest in his client's cause of action.

FACTS

Urzula Cloud Hatch was the record owner of a twenty acre tract of property, part of a forty acre farm which...

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