Disciplinary Authority of the Courts
Applied in 137 court decisions — leading case 18 Cal. 4th 1 - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center v. Superior Court (1998)
Most recently applied in Matter of Rosenbaum (November 2023)
Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 34.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The commission of any act involving moral turpitude, dishonesty or corruption, whether the act is committed in the course of his relations as an attorney or otherwise, and whether the act is a felony or misdemeanor or not, constitutes a cause for disbarment or suspension.
If the act constitutes a felony or misdemeanor, conviction thereof in a criminal proceeding is not a condition precedent to disbarment or suspension from practice therefor.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.