A Texas attorney who practices immigration law in California has resigned his law license, instead of facing discipline in a case alleging he filed 27 appeals that were frivolous and misleading.

Viney K. Gupta, who earned his law license in 1994, spent much of 2019 filing frivolous petitions for review of removal orders and asylum determinations in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, said the resignation documents in the case.