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 |