John Skylar "sky" Tapp v. Stark Ligon, as Executive Director of the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional…

Summary

The court denied Tapp’s petition for a writ of certiorari seeking dissolution or modification of his interim law-license suspension pending disbarment proceedings. It adopted a four-factor standard modeled on preliminary-injunction analysis and concluded that the evidence of unauthorized bankruptcy filings, client-fund mishandling, prior discipline, and serious alleged misconduct justified the suspension. Justice Hart, dissenting, would have upheld the suspension only as to the client-funds matter and rejected the majority’s four-factor standard as inconsistent with due-process principles.