PATMON v. MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT

No. 98-2364.

224 F.3d 504 (2000)

Frederick A. PATMON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT; Conrad L. Mallet, Jr.; Corbin R. Davis, Clerk; State Bar of Michigan; Edmund M. Brady, Jr., President; Attorney Discipline Board for the State of Michigan; Miles A. Hurwitz, Chairperson; John F. Van Bolt; Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission; Phillip J. Thomas, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 1, 2000.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied October 3, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarence B. Tucker, Sr. (argued and briefed), Tucker & Hughes, Detroit, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Margaret A. Nelson (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General Tort Defense Division, Lansing, MI, for Defendants-Appellees Michigan Supreme Court, Conrad L. Mallet, Jr., Corbin R. Davis, Attorney Discipline Board for the State of Michigan, Miles A. Hurwitz, and John F. Van Bolt.

Thomas K. Byerley (briefed), Victoria V. Kremski (argued), Lansing, MI, for Defendants-Appellees State Bar of Michigan, Edmund M. Brady, Jr.

Richard L. Cunningham (argued and briefed), Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission, Detroit, MI, for Defendants-Appellees Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission, and Phillip J. Thomas.

Before: JONES, NORRIS, and SILER, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied October 3, 2000.

NORRIS, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which SILER, J., joined. JONES, J., (pp. 510-11), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.

OPINION

ALAN E. NORRIS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, Frederick A. Patmon, filed an action in district court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994) against the Michigan Supreme Court, the Michigan Attorney...

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