NC Lawyers Weekly: Opinion DIGEST: Judges – Discipline – Jurisdiction – State Bar; North Carolina State Bar v. Tillett (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-024-17, 41 pp.)

http://nclawyersweekly.com/2017/01/10/judges-discipline-jurisdiction-state-bar/

Judges – Discipline – Jurisdiction – State Bar 

By: Teresa Bruno, Opinions Editor January 10, 2017

North Carolina State Bar v. Tillett (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-024-17, 41 pp.) (Barbara Jackson, J.) (Mark Martin, C.J., joined by Robert Edmunds Jr., J., concurring) (Sam Ervin IV, J., joined by Robin Hudson & Cheri Beasley, JJ., concurring in the result) N.C. S. Ct. Holding: This court has exclusive, original jurisdiction over the discipline of judges; ...

http://nclawyersweekly.com/2017/01/10/judges-discipline-jurisdiction-state-bar/

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Court's opinion: https://ncbarvsutton.blogspot.com/2016/12/nc-supreme-court-nc-state-bar-v-tillett.html

Google Scholar citation: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10409962428869454585

All documents in the case: https://www.ncappellatecourts.org/search-results.php?sDocketSearch=208PA15&exact=1

NC Lawyers Weekly Digest (with holding): https://ncbarvsutton.blogspot.com/2017/01/nc-lawyers-weekly-opinion-digest-judges.html

NC Lawyers Weekly: NC state bar can’t discipline sitting judges

http://nclawyersweekly.com/2017/01/09/nc-state-bar-cant-discipline-sitting-judges/

NC state bar can’t discipline sitting judges 

By: David Donovan January 9, 2017

The North Carolina State Bar will not be able to pursue disciplinary action against a Dare County Superior Court judge. The state Supreme Court ruled Dec. 21 that jurisdiction to discipline sitting judges for their conduct while in office rests solely with the state’s Judicial Standards Commission and the Supreme Court, and not with the bar’s ...

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Court's opinion: https://ncbarvsutton.blogspot.com/2016/12/nc-supreme-court-nc-state-bar-v-tillett.html

Google Scholar citation: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10409962428869454585

All documents in the case: https://www.ncappellatecourts.org/search-results.php?sDocketSearch=208PA15&exact=1

NC Lawyers Weekly Digest (with holding): https://ncbarvsutton.blogspot.com/2017/01/nc-lawyers-weekly-opinion-digest-judges.html

ABA Journal: State bar can't discipline judge already reprimanded by judicial regulator, top state court rules

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/state_bar_cant_discipline_judge_already_reprimanded_by_judicial_regulator_t

State bar can't discipline judge already reprimanded by judicial regulator, top state court rules

POSTED JAN 06, 2017 10:47 AM CST

BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS

The North Carolina State Bar can’t pursue an ethics complaint for a judge’s conduct that already resulted in a reprimand by the state’s Judicial Standards Commission, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled.

The court ruled in the case of Judge Jerry Tillett of Dare County in a Dec. 21 opinion, ......

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/state_bar_cant_discipline_judge_already_reprimanded_by_judicial_regulator_t

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Court's opinion: https://ncbarvsutton.blogspot.com/2016/12/nc-supreme-court-nc-state-bar-v-tillett.html

Google Scholar citation: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10409962428869454585

All documents in the case: https://www.ncappellatecourts.org/search-results.php?sDocketSearch=208PA15&exact=1

NC Lawyers Weekly Digest (with holding): https://ncbarvsutton.blogspot.com/2017/01/nc-lawyers-weekly-opinion-digest-judges.html

News & Observer: NC Supreme Court sides with Judge Tillett in dispute with State Bar

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article124255799.html

JANUARY 3, 2017 11:34 AM

NC Supreme Court sides with Judge Tillett in dispute with State Bar

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BY ANNE BLYTHE

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Judges across North Carolina have been watching with intrigue a disciplinary case brought against a Dare County judge by the state organization that oversees lawyers.

Jerry Tillett, the senior resident Superior Court judge in Dare County, had already accepted a public reprimand from the state’s Judicial Standards Commission before the N.C. State Bar ...

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article124255799.html#storylink=cpy

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Court's opinion: https://ncbarvsutton.blogspot.com/2016/12/nc-supreme-court-nc-state-bar-v-tillett.html

Google Scholar citation: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10409962428869454585

All documents in the case: https://www.ncappellatecourts.org/search-results.php?sDocketSearch=208PA15&exact=1

NC Lawyers Weekly Digest (with holding): https://ncbarvsutton.blogspot.com/2017/01/nc-lawyers-weekly-opinion-digest-judges.html