Case ID: so2d_512/html/0853-01.html
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Author: {"author": "LEMMON, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LOUISIANA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION v. James E. YOUNG, Jr.
    No. 87-B-1982.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Sept. 25, 1987.
   In re Young, James E. Jr.; Applying for Disciplinary Action by Consent.

Petition denied.

LEMMON, J.,

concurs. I agree that this Court should reject a joint petition by the Association and the respondent attorney which contains stipulations on misconduct and mitigating circumstances that are contingent on a binding penalty recommendation. There are probably some procedures by which the parties may unconditionally stipulate facts and may suggest a mutually acceptable penalty in a joint petition for disciplinary action, leaving the ultimate decision on penalty to this Court. Perhaps the Association and the Court should confer on establishing time-saving procedures or perhaps the matter should be referred to the committee currently studying revision of the overall disciplinary procedure.