BAYLSON v. DISCIPLINARY BD. OF SUPREME COURT OF PA.

Civ. A. No. 89-5264.

764 F.Supp. 328 (1991)

Michael M. BAYLSON, James J. West and Charles D. Sheehy v. The DISCIPLINARY BOARD OF the SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

April 22, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael M. Baylson, U.S. Atty., David F. McComb, Asst. U.S. Atty., Philadelphia, for plaintiffs.

Richard A. Sprague, Thomas A. Sprague, Philadelphia, for defendant.


MEMORANDUM

RAYMOND J. BRODERICK, District Judge.

The plaintiffs in this action are members of the Pennsylvania Bar and the United States Attorneys or Acting United States Attorneys for the three districts of Pennsylvania. They seek relief from a state disciplinary rule that impresses an ethical obligation on them, as prosecutors, to obtain judicial approval before subpoenaing any lawyer to give evidence about his or her client to a grand jury. The parties...

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