Case Name: R.S. McCULLOUGH; Darrell Brown, Sr., Appellants, v. Stark LIGON, in his capacity of Executive Director of Arkansas Committee on Professional Conduct; J. Michael Cogbill, in his capacity as Chairman of APCC Panel; State of Arkansas; Tom Glaze, in his official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; Robert Brown, in his official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; Betty Dickey, in her official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; James Hannah, in his official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; Annabelle Clinton Imber, in her official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; Donald Corbin, in his official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; Jim Gunter, in his official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2008-03-27
Citations: 271 F. App'x 547
Docket Number: No. 06-2689
Parties: R.S. McCULLOUGH; Darrell Brown, Sr., Appellants, v. Stark LIGON, in his capacity of Executive Director of Arkansas Committee on Professional Conduct; J. Michael Cogbill, in his capacity as Chairman of APCC Panel; State of Arkansas; Tom Glaze, in his official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; Robert Brown, in his official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; Betty Dickey, in her official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; James Hannah, in his official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; Annabelle Clinton Imber, in her official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; Donald Corbin, in his official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; Jim Gunter, in his official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Appel-lees.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 271
Pages: 547–548

Head Matter:
R.S. McCULLOUGH; Darrell Brown, Sr., Appellants, v. Stark LIGON, in his capacity of Executive Director of Arkansas Committee on Professional Conduct; J. Michael Cogbill, in his capacity as Chairman of APCC Panel; State of Arkansas; Tom Glaze, in his official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; Robert Brown, in his official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; Betty Dickey, in her official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; James Hannah, in his official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; Annabelle Clinton Imber, in her official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; Donald Corbin, in his official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court; Jim Gunter, in his official capacity as Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Appel-lees.
No. 06-2689.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: March 24, 2008.
Filed: March 27, 2008.
R.S. McCullough, Little Rock, AR, pro se.
Darrell Brown, Sr., Little Rock, AR, pro se.
Ashley Argo, Arkansas Attorney General’s Office, Little Rock, AR, for Appellees.
Before WOLLMAN, RILEY, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
R.S. McCullough and Darrell Brown, Sr., (plaintiffs) appeal the district court's order remanding their attorney disciplinary proceedings back to Arkansas state court. We have jurisdiction to review the remand order because plaintiffs purported to remove their disciplinary proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1443. See 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) (providing an order remanding a case is not renewable on appeal, except an order remanding a case which was removed pursuant to § 1443 shall be renewable); Neal v. Wilson, 112 F.3d 351, 354-55 (8th Cir.1997) (renewing district court's remand order because disbarment proceedings were removed under § 1443).
We conclude the district court's remand was proper because plaintiffs did not allege facts showing a state law or other "equally firm prediction" has prevented or will prevent them from enforcing their rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1981. See 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) (stating a civil action commenced in state court can be removed to federal court when an action is against any person who is denied or cannot enforce in state court any law providing for the equal rights of United States citizens); Georgia v. Rachel, 384 U.S. 780, 792, 800, 803-04, 86 S.Ct. 1783, 16 L.Ed.2d 925 (1966) (explaining, for a case to be removable under § 1443, defendant must rely upon law providing for specific civil rights stated in terms of racial equality, and must show that, due to a formal expression of state law or other equally firm prediction, he' would be denied or cannot enforce federal rights in state court); Neal, 112 F.3d at 355 (concluding the district court properly remanded disbarment proceedings where the defendant failed to meet § 1443(1) requirements; agreeing with the district court that defendant's contentions "boil[ed] down to little more than a belief by him that, since the state actors disagree with him and his lawyers, they must have racially discriminatory motives" (internal quotation marks omitted)). We also agree with the district court that plaintiffs were not entitled to a hearing to determine whether the disciplinary proceedings were removable. See News-Texan, Inc. v. City of Garland, Texas, 814 F.2d 216, 218 (5th . Cir.1987) (deciding "no evidentiary hearing is required if the section 1443 grounds purportedly justifying removal are patently invalid from the face of the removal petition").
We affirm.
. The Honorable David S. Doty, United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota, sitting by designation in the Eastern District of Arkansas.