Case Name: In re the Petition of Chokwe LUMUMBA for Reinstatement in the Mississippi Bar
Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Mississippi
Decision Date: 2007-01-18
Citations: 962 So. 2d 536
Docket Number: No. 2006-BR-00990-SCT
Parties: In re the Petition of Chokwe LUMUMBA for Reinstatement in the Mississippi Bar.
Judges: WALLER AND COBB, P.JJ., DIAZ, CARLSON, GRAVES, DICKINSON AND RANDOLPH, JJ., CONCUR. EASLEY, J., DISSENTS WITH SEPARATE WRITTEN STATEMENT.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 962
Pages: 536–537

Head Matter:
In re the Petition of Chokwe LUMUMBA for Reinstatement in the Mississippi Bar.
No. 2006-BR-00990-SCT.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Jan. 18, 2007.

Opinion:
ORDER
¶ 1. Chokwe Lumumba was suspended from the practice of law for six months and until he retook and passed the Ethics portion of the Mississippi Bar Examination, fined $1,000, and required to pay the Bar's costs. Miss. Bar v. Lumumba, 912 So.2d 871, 889 (Miss.2005), cert. denied, 546 U.S. 825, 126 S.Ct. 363, 163 L.Ed.2d 70 (2005).
¶ 2. Lumumba now petitions this Court for reinstatement to the Mississippi Bar pursuant to Rule 12 of the Mississippi Rules of Discipline. In support, Lumumba submits that he has satisfied all requirements for reinstatement, In re Benson, 890 So.2d 888, 890 (Miss.2004), and the Mississippi Bar agrees.
¶ 3. Finding that Chokwe Lumumba has sufficiently demonstrated that he has satisfied the conditions precedent for reinstatement to the Bar, we grant his Petition and reinstate Chokwe Lumumba as a member of the Mississippi Bar to the privilege of practicing law in the State of Mississippi effective upon the entry of this order.
¶ 4. SO ORDERED.
/s/ James W. Smith, Jr. JAMES W. SMITH, Jr., CHIEF JUSTICE
FOR THE COURT
WALLER AND COBB, P.JJ., DIAZ, CARLSON, GRAVES, DICKINSON AND RANDOLPH, JJ., CONCUR. EASLEY, J., DISSENTS WITH SEPARATE WRITTEN STATEMENT.