mandatory-bar

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1025 Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. State Bar of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Amici (6) circuit-split constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-association legal-profession mandatory-bar Whether compelled membership in a bar association that engages in nongermane activities is necessarily unconstitutional and whether the Court should r…
22-95 Schuyler File v. Margaret Hickey, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abood-v-detroit civil-rights compelled-membership due-process first-amendment free-speech janus-precedent mandatory-bar scrutiny-standard standing union-shop Whether membership in a mandatory state bar is subject to heightened scrutiny under the First Amendment
21-800 Tony K. McDonald, et al. v. Sylvia Borunda Firth, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights compelled-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech ideological-speech legal-membership mandatory-bar political-activities political-activity standing state-bar-association Does the First Amendment prohibit a state from compelling attorneys to join and fund a state bar association that engages in extensive political and i…
20-1457 Adrian Moon v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2021-04-16 Denied attorney-discipline bar-association civil-rights compelled-speech free-speech mandatory-bar Whether the California State Bar's mandatory bar membership and dues requirements violate the First Amendment rights of attorneys
20-1360 Scottlynn J. Hubbard v. State Bar of California California 2021-03-26 Denied Response Waived advocacy-speech false-speech first-amendment free-speech harmless-speech mandatory-bar Whether under the First Amendment a mandatory integrated state bar may punish advocacy speech it deems false but also expressly finds to be harmless?
18-6452 Alan Bartlett v. State Bar of California, et al. California 2018-10-29 Denied IFP access-to-courts attorney-discipline bar-association civil-rights compelled-speech due-process free-speech mandatory-bar professional-conduct standing Whether the State Bar of California deprived the petitioner of due process by failing to investigate his complaints against attorneys