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Parties Involved:
Spencer Freeman Smith
In Re

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE MATTER OF

Spencer Freeman Smith #236587

Case No. 15-mc-80127-JD 

ORDER DISCHARGING ORDER TO

SHOW CAUSE

On June 11, 2015, the Court issued an order to show cause why Mr. Smith’s membership 

in this Court’s bar should not be suspended because the State Bar Court had, as of April 15, 2015,

suspended Mr. Smith following a criminal conviction. Dkt. No. 2. 

On June 16, 2015, Mr. Smith filed with the Court -- with no accompanying explanation or 

statement -- an order dated April 17, 2015, that was issued by the State Bar Court of California’s 

Review Department and which vacates Mr. Smith’s “interim suspension imposed pursuant to [the 

State Bar Court’s] April 3, 2015 order.” Dkt. No. 3. The State Bar Court order states that “the 

superior court accepted Respondent’s withdrawal of his no contest plea, making his conviction no 

longer valid,” and that the Office of the Chief Trial Counsel of the State Bar had stated that it 

would inform the State Bar Court “if respondent is later convicted of the pending charges against 

him.” Id.

Mr. Smith has apparently now decided to fight the criminal charges that were filed against 

him in California state court. Consequently, the Court will, as the State Bar Court has done, lift its 

interim suspension of Mr. Smith’s membership, pending the outcome of the criminal case. 

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

The prior order to show cause, Dkt. No. 2, is therefore discharged, but Mr. Smith must 

inform this Court in writing within 10 days in the event he should again be “convicted of a felony, 

suspended, disbarred or placed on disciplinary probation by any court.” Civil Local Rule 11-7(a). 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 19, 2015

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JAMES DONATO

United States District Judge

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE MATTER OF

Spencer Freeman Smith #236587

Case No. 15-mc-80127-JD 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. 

District Court, Northern District of California.

That on 6/17/2015, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by placing said 

copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by depositing 

said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery receptacle 

located in the Clerk's office.

Spencer Freeman Smith

Smith Patten

353 Sacramento Street, Suite 1120

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Dated: 6/17/2015

Richard W. Wieking

Clerk, United States District Court

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By:__ ______________________

Lisa R. Clark, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable James Donato

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