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GRIEVANCE ADM'R v. UNDERWOOD

Docket No. 113180, Calendar No. 10.

612 N.W.2d 116 (2000)

462 Mich. 188

GRIEVANCE ADMINISTRATOR, Attorney Grievance Commission, State of Michigan, Petitioner-Appellant, v. David L. UNDERWOOD, P-44754, Respondent-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 27, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Edick, Cynthia C. Bullington, and Richard L. Cunningham, Detroit, MI, for petitioner-appellant.

Dunnings & Frawley, P.C., by Stuart J. Dunnings, Jr., Lansing, MI, for respondent-appellee.

Moore, Vestrand & Pozehl, P.C., by Joan P. Vestrand, Southfield, MI, amicus curiae for State Bar Grievance Committee on Behalf of the State Bar of Michigan.

Opinion

MICHAEL F. CAVANAGH, J.

This attorney discipline case requires us to decide whether respondent Underwood's delayed petition for review was timely under MCR 9.118(A)(3). That rule directs the Attorney Discipline Board (ADB) to treat the one-year limitation period in MCR 7.205(F) as a guideline, rather than as an absolute deadline. Because we hold that under the circumstances of this case, the ADB did not abuse its discretion in considering respondent...

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