Case Name: GRIEVANCE ADMINISTRATOR, ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COMMISSION v. OEMING
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1986-03-26
Citations: 151 Mich. App. 575
Docket Number: Docket No. 83802
Parties: GRIEVANCE ADMINISTRATOR, ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COMMISSION v OEMING
Judges: Before: R. B. Burns, P.J., and Bronson and J. C. Timms, JJ.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 151
Pages: 575–577

Head Matter:
GRIEVANCE ADMINISTRATOR, ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COMMISSION v OEMING
Docket No. 83802.
Submitted February 12, Í986, at Lansing.
Decided March 26, 1986.
Leave to appeal denied, 426 Mich 859.
The Attorney Discipline Board suspended Roger J. Oeming’s license to practice law for 121 days. Both the Grievance Administrator of the Attorney Grievance Commission and Oeming filed applications for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. The Court denied their applications. Grievance Administrator v Oeming, 419 Mich 1205 (1984). Oeming then filed an appeal in the Saginaw Circuit Court seeking a review of the order of discipline and a stay of the suspension of his license to practice law. The grievance administrator moved for accelerated judgment contending that the circuit court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction. The circuit court, Hazen R. Armstrong, J., granted accelerated judgment in favor of the grievance administrator and denied Oeming’s request for a stay. Oeming appealed. Held:
The circuit court properly granted accelerated judgment for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. Under the State Bar disciplinary procedure, there is no role for the circuit courts or for the Court of Appeals.
Affirmed.
Attorney and Client — Suspension and Disbarment — Appeal — Courts.
Michigan State Bar disciplinary procedures provide a right of appeal from a decision of the State Bar Grievance Board to the Supreme Court; under this procedure, there is no role, and therefore no subject-matter jurisdiction, for the circuit courts or for the Court of Appeals.
References
Am Jur 2d, Attorneys at Law §§ 25 et seq.
Appealability of state court’s order granting or denying motion to disqualify attorney. 5 ALR4th 1251.
See also the annotations in the ALR3d/4th Quick Index under Attorneys.
John F. VanBolt, for petitioner.
Roger J. Oeming, in propria persona, for respondent.
Before: R. B. Burns, P.J., and Bronson and J. C. Timms, JJ.
Circuit judge, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Respondent appeals from an order of the Saginaw Circuit Court granting accelerated judgment in favor of petitioner pursuant to GCR 1963, 116.1(2), now MCR 2.116(C)(4), for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. We affirm.
On March 13, 1984, an order was entered by the Attorney Discipline Board suspending respondent's license to practice law in the State of Michigan for 121 days. Both petitioner and respondent then filed applications for leave to appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court within twenty days after that order was entered. The applications and motions for reconsideration were denied by the Supreme Court. Grievance Administrator v Oeming, 419 Mich 1205 (1984).
Respondent filed a claim of appeal in the Saginaw Circuit Court seeking a review of the order of discipline. He also sought an order staying the suspension of his license to practice law.
Petitioner then filed a motion to dismiss and a motion for accelerated judgment pursuant to GCR 1963, 116.1(2), now MCR 2.116(C)(4), alleging that the circuit court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction over the disciplining of attorneys licensed to practice law in the State of Michigan. The circuit judge granted petitioner's motion for accelerated judgment and denied respondent's request for an order staying the suspension of his license.
In Sternberg v State Bar of Michigan, 384 Mich 588, 593; 185 NW2d 395 (1971), the Court stated:
Under the new State Bar disciplinary procedure, there is no role for the circuit courts or for the Court of Appeals.
Affirmed.