TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 1, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court today issued orders from its conference last Thursday and did not add any new cases to its docket for the fall. That means the court will not review a challenge to the constitutionality of laws in some states where lawyers who want to practice law must join that state’s bar association and pay dues, SCOTUSBlog reports. The lawsuit was filed by two Wisconsin lawyers who argue that compelling them to do so violates the First Amendment. Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented from the denial of review writing they would “grant certiorari to address this important question.”