Who Benefits. The Bar admitted the mistake. Months later it has not fixed it. I am asking who is served by that, and showing the facts. I am not asserting a motive.
April 21, 2026.
On April 21, 2026, the State Bar of Georgia admitted in writing that my February submissions had been received and misclassified, and were not in the grievance file when it dismissed my grievance for “no rebuttal.”
The admission came from Assistant General Counsel Leigh Burgess, in one sentence that the rest of this record rests on:
“As a result of this misclassification, your submissions were not added to the grievance file at that time.”
The April 10 dismissal had stated that no rebuttal was received. The Bar’s own intake had already acknowledged my February 3 and February 20 submissions. So the dismissal rested on a premise the Bar now admitted was not true.
An admission is not a correction, and I said so the same day:
“A forward is not a correction.”
I asked the Office, in writing, to “withdraw or supersede the April 10 dismissal,” to reclassify the February submissions as timely rebuttals, and to review whether other complainants’ submissions had been similarly misclassified. I split the access track from the merits track so neither could be quietly dropped, and I set a deadline: “The cure window closes on May 5, 2026.”
The documents
| Date / Time | Direction | From | To / Cc | Document | Attachment | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 21, 2026 | Received | Leigh Burgess | the complainant | The misclassification admission | None | The Bar admitted the submissions were received but were not in the grievance file when it dismissed. |
| April 21, 2026, 6:53 PM | Sent | the complainant | Morrison, Burgess + leadership | Reconsideration response | Reconsideration response (PDF) | Asked the Bar to withdraw the April 10 dismissal and reclassify the February submissions as rebuttals. |
| April 21, 2026, 6:43 PM | Sent | the complainant | Office of the General Counsel + leadership | ADA Title II accommodation demand | WCAG 2.1 audit (PDF) | Split the access track from the merits and set a cure window of May 5, 2026. |
The questions still open
Was the April 10 dismissal ever withdrawn or corrected after the Bar admitted the file was incomplete? See The Unanswered Questions.
Read the record: the full State Bar of Georgia record, and this day on the Timeline.
Status: the Bar admitted the misclassification; as of this writing the April 10 dismissal had not been withdrawn or corrected.
Corrections: this site is built from the documents I received. If any fact here is incomplete or inaccurate, identify the page, the sentence, and the supporting document, and I will review and correct the record.
Versión en español
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If you have been through something like this, you are not imagining it, and you are not alone.
Patterns on this page: admitted-error-uncorrected. Each is a recurring pattern in the State Bar record. We are noting the timing, not asserting a reason.