Ohio State Bar Ass'n v. Tekulve
| Decision Date | 14 May 1975 |
| Docket Number | No. 75-1,75-1 |
| Citation | 42 Ohio St.2d 285,328 N.E.2d 405 |
| Parties | , 71 O.O.2d 259 OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION v. TEKULVE. D. D. |
| Court | Ohio Supreme Court |
Francis D. DeFrancis, Dayton, Albert L. Bell, John R. Welch, Columbus, and John L. Beckley, McArthur, for relator.
Cors. Hair & Hartsock and Louis J. Schneider, Jr., Cincinnati, for respondent.
In Cleveland Bar Assn. v. Stein (1972), 29 Ohio St.2d 77, 278 N.E.2d 670, this court recognized the need for consistency in the imposition of discipline in cases of willful failure by an attorney to file an income tax return. We therefore rejected the recommendation of the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline that a public reprimand issue, and imposed the discipline of indefinite suspension, stating, at page 81, 278 N.E.2d at page 673:
The rule announced in Stein was recently upheld in Columbus Bar Assn. v. Dixon (1974), 40 Ohio St.2d 76, 320 N.E.2d 293.
The case at bar is not distinguishable from Stein or Dixon. By willfully violating the law requiring the filing of income tax returns, respondent has acted in clear disregard of law which millions of taxpayers obey yearly, and by his conduct has brought disrespect upon the legal profession.
For the foregoing reasons, the report of the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline is affirmed and respondent is indefinitely suspended from the practice of law.
Judgment accordingly.
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