MATTIE RIEGER, PETITIONER,

v.

ROBERT ABRAMS

Citator

Cited By

• DeBOCK v. State, 512 So. 2d 164 (Fla. 1987)
  …quiry into an attorney’s fitness to practice law is penal, i.e., is designed to punish an attorney. This Court explicitly embraced the reasoning of (then) Judge Cardozo in In re: Rouss, 221 N.Y. 81, 84-85, 116 N.E. 782, 783 (N.Y.1917), cert. denied, 246 U.S. 661, 38 S.Ct. 332, 62 L.Ed. 927 (1918): Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions. A fair private and professional character is one of them. Compliance with that condition is essential at the moment of admission; but it is equally e…
• The Fla. Bar re Amendments to Rules Regulating the Fla. Bar, 624 So. 2d 720 (Fla. 1993)
  …lowing their publication in the December 1, 1992, Florida Bar News. As Judge Benjamin Cardozo noted many years ago, “[mjembership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.” In re Rouss, 221 N.Y. 81, 116 N.E. 782, 783 (1917), cert. denied, 246 U.S. 661, 38 S.Ct. 332, 62 L.Ed. 927 (1918). The United States Supreme Court has noted that “[t]he interest of the States in regulating lawyers is especially great since lawyers are essential to the primary governmental function of administering justice, and…
• In re Daley, 549 F.2d 469 (7th Cir. 1977)
  …88, 499 P. 2d 968 (1968); Cate v. Rivers, 246 S.C. 35, 142 S.E. 2d 369 (1965); Florida State Bar v. Massfeller, 170 So. 2d 834 (Fla.1974); In re Pennica, 36 N.J. 401, 177 A. 2d 721 (1962); In re Rouss, 221 N.Y. 81, 116 N.E. 782 (1917), cert. denied, 246 U.S. 661, 38 S.Ct. 332, 62 L.Ed. 927 (1918). . To achieve this end, language in earlier immunity statutes to the effect that an immunized witness attained protection from all “penalties and forfeitures" resulting from subsequent use of his testimony was del…