Kelly v. Martin

Summary

The court affirmed the determination that Timothy Fox was eligible to run for circuit judge despite a forty-five-day delinquency in paying his annual attorney-license fee. It held that the resulting automatic suspension limited Fox’s privilege to practice law but did not terminate his license or remove his name from the list of licensed attorneys, so he satisfied the six-year constitutional qualification. The court also rejected Kelly’s res judicata argument because Fox’s eligibility had not been litigated in the earlier proceeding.