The removal of defense attorney Ivan Fisher from the rolls in the Southern District has been upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Fisher was first suspended in 2012 and the removed from the rolls in 2013 by the Southern District Committee on Grievances, chaired by Judge P. Kevin Castel (See Profile), for using $180,000 he was supposed to be holding in escrow for a client’s restitution for personal purposes.