Though 400 Second St., NW, in The Shut-Down City has “settled our brains for a long winter’s nap,” there appears a disciplinary announcement that is more than the usual someone-else-did-it, so-we-do-it-too.

The “someone else” is ME’s indigent legal assistance crew and the Supreme Court thereof, with 2 Cir in on the play. I’ll just not name the subject thereof, for though the aforesaid jurisdictions felt the punishment fit the “crime,” the Empire State, namely, the First Dep’t of our App Div, thought otherwise.

Here’s the whole story from our App Div: https://govt.westlaw.com/nyofficial/Document/I7f477860300711f09b09a0238669886f?viewType=FullText&listSource=Search&originationContext=Search+Result&transitionType=SearchItem&contextData=(sc.Search)&navigationPath=Search%2fv1%2fresults%2fnavigation%2fi0a899f6c0000019b5b6b2eb693b4e407%3fppcid%3dc4bac05c810e49aab78d3010ffd1381c%26Nav%3dCASE_PUBLICVIEW%26fragmentIdentifier%3dI7f477860300711f09b09a0238669886f%26startIndex%3d1%26transitionType%3dSearchItem%26contextData%3d%2528sc.Default%2529%26originationContext%3dSearch%2520Result&list=CASE_PUBLICVIEW&rank=1&t_querytext=%22Scott%22+AND+%22Fenstermaker%22&t_Method=TNC

And here’s USTC’s: https://ustaxcourt.gov/files/documents/Announcement_12232025.pdf

What d’ya think? Was ME too strict, or NY too lenient? Is reciprocity supposed to be just that, buy whatever the first disciplinarian says, absent overreaching?