Court Opinion

ID: 9463588
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:10:21.399218+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:10.621590
License: Public Domain

BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge,
concurring in result.
I concur in the result because I am convinced that the federal district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction. The Supreme Court of Colorado has exclusive jurisdiction over the admission to practice in the Colorado courts. In the exercise of that jurisdiction it denied to Doe the right to practice. No rule or regulation pertaining to admission of attorneys is attacked. Doe’s sole claim is that in his particular situation the action of the Colorado Supreme Court denied his federal constitutional rights to due process and equal protection. The action of the Colorado court was judicial rather than administrative. A federal district court does not sit as an appellate court to review actions of a state supreme court. Doe’s recourse was to petition the Supreme Court of the United States for certiorari review of the action of the state supreme court. See Konigsberg v. State Bar of California, 353 U.S. 252, 258, 77 S.Ct. 772, 1 L.Ed.2d 810.