As we’ve often mentioned, the Supreme Court does more than just decide cases (and decide which cases it’s going to decide). (See: The multi-tasking Supreme Court.)
Merrill Balassone’s news release is the latest reminder of this. It reports “[t]he court rejected a State Bar proposal that would have significantly reduced the monetary sanctions imposed on disciplined attorneys,” “rejected a State Bar proposal to implement an automatic, one-time expungement of an attorney’s public disciplinary record after a period of eight years with no further discipline imposed,” “approved, with modifications, the State Bar’s proposed amendments to rule 9.41.1 of the California Rules of Court concerning the practice of law by military servicemembers and their spouses, if licensed in other states,” and “appointed attorney Alison Worthington, assistant city attorney for Pasadena, to the State Bar Court’s Los Angeles Hearing Department.”
