Florida Bar v. Catalano

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided October 20, 1994

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1994-10-20

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1999

4 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“[g]iven our disapproval of the referee's report [finding several rule violations], we decline to impose the Bar's costs on [the respondent].”

quoted by 1 later decision, including 734 So. 2d 417 - The Florida Bar v. Williams

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Decided 1994-10-20

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PER CURIAM.

¶1Michael A. Catalano, a member of The Florida Bar, petitions for review of a referee’s report recommending that he be publicly reprimanded. We have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 15 of the Florida Constitution.

¶2We disapprove the referee’s report because we do not find competent and substantial evidence to support the finding that Ca-talano knowingly committed certain acts and *87thus violated Rules Regulating the Florida Bar 4-3.3(a)(l) and 4-4.1(a). We therefore find Catalano not guilty of the charged misconduct.

¶3Given our disapproval of the referee’s report, we decline to impose the Bar’s costs on Catalano.

¶4It is so ordered.

GRIMES, C.J., and OVERTON, SHAW, KOGAN, HARDING and ANSTEAD, JJ., concur.WELLS, J., recused.