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 ...

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

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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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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

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

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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

Daily Advance: Tillett, Bar both welcome decision

http://www.dailyadvance.com/News/2016/12/23/Tillett-Bar-both-welcome-decision.html

Tillett, Bar both welcome decision

From staff reports

Friday, December 23, 201

Both sides in the North Carolina State Bar’s disciplinary case against Resident Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett welcomed the N.C. Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday ordering the case’s dismissal — but for different reasons.

One of Tillett’s attorneys, Norman Shearin of Kitty Hawk, said Thursday his client welcomed the court’s unanimous decision that the State Bar lacked jurisdiction .......

http://www.dailyadvance.com/News/2016/12/23/Tillett-Bar-both-welcome-decision.html

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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

Outer Banks Sentinel: N.C. Supreme Court rules for Judge Tillett

http://www.obsentinel.com/news/n-c-supreme-court-rules-for-judge-tillett/article_498ea26c-c88b-11e6-9ee4-af4a21b51b5a.html

N.C. Supreme Court rules for Judge Tillett

Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2016 4:12 pm

CATHERINE KOZAK | SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL | 0 comments

Decision says state Bar cannot discipline judges

Six years after a minor police stop sparked a series of increasingly tangled legal showdowns, the North Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday Dec. 21 ruled unanimously that the state Bar does not have the power to prosecute Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett for his conduct related to a conflict with the town of Kill Devil Hills.

The Bar’s Disciplinary Hearing Commission had charged Tillett with professional misconduct in March 2015, but Tillett contended that only the state  .....

http://www.obsentinel.com/news/n-c-supreme-court-rules-for-judge-tillett/article_498ea26c-c88b-11e6-9ee4-af4a21b51b5a.html

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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

Outer Banks Voice: Supreme Court orders Bar to dismiss complaint against Tillett

http://outerbanksvoice.com/2016/12/21/supreme-court-orders-bar-to-dismiss-complaint-against-tillett/

Supreme Court orders Bar to dismiss complaint against Tillett

By Outer Banks Voice on December 21, 2016

A five-year effort aimed at removing Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett from the bench has ended with a ruling Wednesday that the North Carolina State Bar had no power to discipline him.

Tillet had already accepted a reprimand from the Judicial Standards Commission when .....

http://outerbanksvoice.com/2016/12/21/supreme-court-orders-bar-to-dismiss-complaint-against-tillett/


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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