NEAL v. WILSON

No. 96-2112.

112 F.3d 351 (1997)

James A. NEAL, Director of Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct, Plaintiff/Appellee, v. Jimmie L. WILSON, Defendant/Appellant, v. Jack HOLT, Jr., Member of the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas; Robert H. Dudley, Member of the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas; Tom Glaze, Member of the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas; Donald Corbin, Member of the Supreme Curt of the State of Arkansas; John Lineberger, Chancery Judge of the Fourth Judicial District of Arkansas; Members of Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct; Robert Donovan, Attorney for the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct; John Doe, Defendants and other unknown John Doe Defendants, known and unknown, each individually and in his official capacity as set out herein; Ken Reeves, Chairman; Sue Winter, Secretary; Carlton Bailey, Member of the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct; Allen Humphries, Member of the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct; Richard A. Reed, Member of the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct; Burt Virden, Member of the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct; Patricia Youngdahl, Member of the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct, Third Party Defendants/Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 25, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Hairston, argued, New York City (E. Dion Wilson and Roy C. Lewellen, on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

Angela S. Jegley, Senior Assistant Attorney General, argued, Little Rock, AR, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WOLLMAN and FLOYD R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges, and MONTGOMERY, District Judge.


WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

Jimmie Wilson appeals from the district court's2 order remanding his disbarment case to state court and dismissing a complaint Wilson filed against various Arkansas officials. We affirm.

I. Background

The background of this case stretches back almost seventeen years and involves numerous proceedings in state and federal court. Wilson, an African-American from Helena, Arkansas, has been a lawyer...

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