In Re Durant’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 4 district · 121 state decisions

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1. ““The power to declare this forfeiture is a summary one inherent in the courts, and exists not to mete out punishment to an offendent, but that the administration of justice may be safeguarded and the courts and the public protected from the misconduct or unfitness of those who are licensed to perform the important functions of the legal profession. Ex parte Bradley, 13 Wall. (U. S.) 364, 374; Fairfield County Bar v. Taylor, 60 Conn. 11, 12 , 22 Atl. 441 ; Bar Assoc. v. Greenhood, 168 Mass. 169 , 46 N. E. 568 ; Ex parte Brounsall, 2 Cowper, 829. “The action of the court in the exercise of this power is judicial in its character, but the inquiry made is fin the nature of an investigation by the court into the conduct of one of its own officers, not the trial of an action or suit,’ and the order entered is but an exercise of the disciplinary jurisdiction which it has over such officers. Fairfield County Bar v. Taylor [supra] ; Ex parte Garland, 4 Wall. (U. S.) 333, 378 ; In re Hardwick, 12 Q. B. 148, 149. The real question for determination, in such proceedings, is whether or not the attorney is ‘a fit person to be longer allowed the privileges of being an attorney.’ Fairfield County Bar v. Taylor, 60 Conn. 11, 16 , 22 Atl. 441 . Into its determination there naturally and necessarily enters a large measure of judicial discretion. Fairfield County Bar v. Taylor [supra] ; Ex parte Burr, 9 Wheat. (U. S.) 529, 530 ; Ex parte Secombe, 19 How. (U. S.) 9, 13 ; Ex parte Wall, 107 U. S. ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex parte Cashin