They Read It. The State Bar’s own read receipts show who opened each message, and when. I am logging the ones they read and never answered.
June 25, 2026.
On June 18, the State Bar of Georgia official I had filed a grievance against acknowledged it in a single word. By June 25, that one word was still the only response I had received on any of seven matters open with the Bar, and the Bar had issued no disposition on any of them.
On June 17, I filed a grievance against the ADA Coordinator, John J. Shiptenko, using the alternate filing method the Bar itself had offered. The next morning, at 8:05 AM, he replied:
“Received.”
He is the respondent in that grievance. He is also, as I wrote back on June 25, the only person at the Bar who has acknowledged it:
“You are the respondent in that grievance. You are also the only person at the Bar who has acknowledged it. No one else has responded.”
His one-word reply had gone to me alone. I restored the recipients and laid out the full record. By my count it is seven matters, and the table below is the record as of June 25. The filing dates are the Bar’s. The acknowledgments are the Bar’s. As I put it:
“The dispositions are the Bar’s. There are none.”
One of the seven is the reconsideration of a grievance the Bar dismissed in April for “no rebuttal received,” after this office had admitted in writing that the rebuttal was received, misclassified, and left out of the file. The Bar set the reconsideration deadline for June 15. Ten days later, no ruling had issued, and the dismissal still stated that no rebuttal was received. As I wrote, both statements cannot be true, and one of them is still on the record.
I asked for one thing: a written status on each of the seven matters, or a written statement that none has issued. I also noted what is hard to write about at all:
“I have been waiting since January. I write every one of these letters with voice software because I cannot use my hand. You found one word in a day. The disposition is five months late.”
The documents
| Date / Time | Direction | From | To / Cc | Document | Attachment | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 17, 2026 | Sent | the complainant | Office of the General Counsel + leadership | Grievance filed via the offered route | Grievance (PDF) | Filed a grievance against the ADA Coordinator using the alternate method the Bar itself had offered. |
| June 18, 2026, 8:05 AM | Received | John J. Shiptenko | the complainant (only) | The one-word acknowledgment | None | A single word, “Received,” sent to the complainant alone, with no complaint number, reviewer, or routing. |
| June 25, 2026 | Sent | the complainant | Shiptenko + full leadership | Status demand on seven open matters | Outstanding matters table | Restored the recipients, asked for a written status on each of seven open matters, and noted the June 15 deadline had passed. |
The questions still open
As of June 25, had the Bar issued a disposition on any of the seven matters, and had the April dismissal ever been withdrawn 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: as of June 25, 2026, the Bar had acknowledged one of the seven matters in a single word and, by the complainant’s account, had issued no disposition on any of them; the reconsideration deadline the Bar set for June 15 had passed.
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: one-word, read-no-answer, stripped-cc, two-tier, own-deadline-missed, cost-on-the-disabled. Each is a recurring pattern in the State Bar record. We are noting the timing, not asserting a reason.