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Out-of-state lawyer discipline

Margaret Jean Lowery v. Oklahoma

Updated Nov 12, 2026

In brief

Where it stands
Dismissed

Petition denied.

What it’s about
Margaret Jean Lowery asks the Supreme Court to review whether Oklahoma may impose reciprocal lawyer discipline without independently addressing her challenges to another state’s authority and process.
Who it affects
The denial ends Lowery's request for Supreme Court review, but the Court did not decide her underlying claims.

Summary: written with AI from the case record.

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What it's about

Her filing also questions whether disability-access protections and constitutional safeguards for speech were respected.

Lowery's case concerns whether Oklahoma could discipline a lawyer based on another state's action without independently reviewing objections to that state's authority and process.

Question presented

1. Whether a receiving State may impose summary reciprocal discipline when the originating State never adjudicated preserved challenges to jurisdiction, charging authority, due process, Title II access, and attribution, and the receiving State declines independent constitutional review under Selling v. Radford. 2. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits ex post jurisdiction by status (historic admission in one state with continuing licensure in another), where no adjudicated jurisdictional nexus connected the originating State to a retired attorney’s post-retirement, out-of-state conduct, and the receiving State thereafter sustained the originating State’s authority based upon historical admission and continuing licensure in another State. 3. Whether Titles II and V of the Americans with Disabilities Act permit a State to deny a disabled attorney direct access by treating private counsel as the accommodation, and then to use the resulting exclusion or the invocation of accommodation rights adversely. 4. Whether, before professional discipline may be imposed for speech, the State must establish through constitutionally adequate process both authorship and the actual content of the statement being punished.

Documents

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Docket activity

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