Case Title: Attorney Grievance v. Planta

Citation: 

Docket Number: 62agpc/18

State: maryland

Court: Maryland Supreme Court

Date: 2019-12-06T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS 
 
OF MARYLAND 
  
Misc. Docket AG No. 62 
September Term, 2018 
 
 
 
ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COMMISSION 
 OF MARYLAND 
 
v. 
 
WILLIAM CLARK PLANTA 
 
 
 
Barbera, C.J. 
McDonald 
Watts 
Hotten 
Getty 
Booth 
Battaglia, Lynne A., 
   (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned) 
 
 
 
 JJ. 
 
 
PER CURIAM ORDER 
 
 
 
 
Filed: December 6, 2019 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Circuit Court for Montgomery County 
Case No. 463779-V 
Argued: December 5, 2019 
Pursuant to Maryland Uniform Electronic Legal 
Materials Act 
(§§ 10-1601 et seq. of the State Government Article) this document is authentic. 
 
 
 
 
 
Suzanne C. Johnson, Clerk 
2019-12-06 
13:38-05:00
 
ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE 
 
 
*     In the 
COMMISSION OF MARYLAND 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*   
Court of Appeals   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
v. 
 
 
 
 
*     of Maryland    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
WILLIAM CLARK PLANTA 
 
 
* 
Misc. Docket AG No. 62 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
September Term, 2018 
 
                     
PER CURIAM ORDER 
For reasons to be stated in an opinion later to be filed, it is this 6th day of 
December 2019, 
 
 
 
 
 
ORDERED, by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, that the Respondent, William 
Clark Planta be, and he is hereby, disbarred, effective immediately, from the further 
practice of law in the State of Maryland; and it is further 
ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall strike the name of William Clark 
Planta from the register of attorneys, and pursuant to Maryland Rule 19-761, shall certify 
that fact to the Trustees of the Client Protection Fund and the clerks of all judicial 
tribunals in the State; and it is further 
ORDERED that Respondent shall pay all costs as taxed by the Clerk of this Court, 
including the costs of all transcripts, pursuant to Maryland Rule 19-709, for which sum 
judgment is entered in favor of the Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland against 
William Clark Planta.  
 
 /s/ Mary Ellen Barbera   
    
Chief Judge