IN RE BANKS

Nos. 96-SP-817, 97-SP-1629, 97-SP-1760 to 97-SP-1762, 99-SP-1025, 99-SP-1192.

805 A.2d 990 (2002)

In re Simon BANKS, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 29, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simon Banks, pro se.

Anthony C. Epstein, Washington, DC, for the Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law.

John R. Fisher, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., United States Attorney, was on the brief, for the United States.

Stuart F. Pierson, filed a brief pro se.

Before WAGNER, Chief Judge, and SCHWELB and FARRELL, Associate Judges.


FARRELL, Associate Judge:

These cumulative appeals challenge in substance an adjudication of civil contempt and a later conviction for criminal contempt both resulting from appellant's disregard of injunctions issued by this court against the unauthorized practice of law. He presents a barrage of arguments why both of those adjudications exceed our authority to regulate his conduct, in particular his business of representing persons before federal and local administrative...

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