07-9054-am In re Gell UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT SUMMARY ORDER RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT=S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION ASUMMARY ORDER@). A PARTY CITING TO A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL. At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the 29th day of May, two thousand twenty. PRESENT: José A. Cabranes, Robert D. Sack, Richard C. Wesley, Circuit Judges. _____________________________________ In re Amy Gell, also known as Amy Lauren Nussbaum, 1 07-9054-am Attorney. ORDER OF GRIEVANCE PANEL _____________________________________ FOR AMY GELL: Hal R. Lieberman, Esq., Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, New York, New York. 1 Gell is admitted to the bars of New York State and this Court as Amy Lauren Nussbaum. She has used the names Amy Nussbaum Gell and Amy Lauren Nussbaum Gell in this Court. This Court’s Committee on Admissions and Grievances (the “Committee”) has recommended that Amy Gell be disciplined for her misconduct in this Court and that she be permitted to voluntarily withdraw from the bar of this Court. Gell does not object to those recommendations. Upon due consideration, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that Amy Gell be and hereby is PUBLICLY REPRIMANDED for engaging in conduct unbecoming a member of the bar. It is further ORDERED that Gell is granted leave to voluntarily withdraw from the Court’s bar. I. Overview and Summary of Proceedings Gell was admitted to the New York State bar in 1987, and to this Court’s bar in 2006. In 2010, she was publicly reprimanded by this Court, primarily for “fail[ing] to comply with the Court’s scheduling orders, resulting in the dismissal of a substantial number of cases.” In re Gell, No. 07-9054- am, 2010 WL 4942215, at *1 (2d Cir. Dec. 7, 2010) (summary order). In August 2017, Gell was again referred to this panel, based on her defaults in additional cases in this Court. After ordering Gell to address the new defaults and considering her response, we referred her to the Committee for further investigation of her conduct in both this Court and a federal immigration agency, and for preparation of a report on whether she should be subject to disciplinary or other corrective measures. During the Committee’s proceedings, Gell had the opportunity to address the matters discussed in our referral order and to testify under oath at a hearing held before Committee members Paul C. Curnin, Terrence M. Connors, and the Honorable Howard A. Levine. Thereafter, the Committee ...
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