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Excommunication is a religious censure used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. The word literally means putting [someone] out of communion. In some churches excommunication includes spiritual condemnation of the member or group. Censures and sanctions sometimes follow excommunication; these include banishment, shunning, and shaming, depending on the group's religion, the offense that caused excommunication, or religious community. This article addresses excommunication and spiritual condemnation often associated with excommunication, but not the religious censures and sanctions that follow excommunication.
Reinstatement Possible, But Not Really
In a case involving misappropriation of client funds, the Minnesota Supreme Court ordered suspension rather than disbarment...
Speedy Reinstatement
An attorney who had been convicted of nine counts of mail fraud and two counts of engaging in a monetary transaction in property derived from unlawful activity...
No Waiver, No Reinstatement
A petition for reinstatement filed by an attorney who had been suspended for 18 months for serious ethics violations (not described in the order) was denied by the Georgia Supreme Court...
No Restitution, No Reinstatement
The decision whether or not to reinstate a suspended or disbarred lawyer involves a balancing between our interest in the possibility of redemption with our concern that past lapses may reflect the danger of future harm...
Reinstatement Granted
An attorney who had been disbarred on consent in Pennsylvania after practicing for about ten years was reinstated almost twenty years...
No Obstacle To Reinstatement
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reinstated an attorney who had been suspended for two years in 2005. The attorney had mishandled an estate matter, charged excessive fees to the estate and had demanded loans from the estate without security or set...
















