Baird v. State Bar of Arizona
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| Baird v. State Bar of Arizona | ||||||||||
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| Argued December 8-9, 1969 Reargued October 14, 1970 Decided February 23, 1971 |
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| A State's power to inquire about a person's beliefs or associations is limited by the First Amendment, which prohibits a State from excluding a person from a profession solely because of membership in a political organization or because of his beliefs. | ||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger Associate Justices: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, John Marshall Harlan II, William J. Brennan, Jr, Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun |
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| Majority by: Black Joined by: Douglas, Brennan, Marshall Concurrence by: Stewart Dissent by: Harlan Dissent by: White Dissent by: Blacknum Joined by: Burger, Harlan, White |
Baird v. State Bar of Arizona, 401 U.S. 1, 91 S.Ct. 702, 27 L.Ed.2d 639 (1971) was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled:
- A State's power to inquire about a person's beliefs or associations is limited by the First Amendment, which prohibits a State from excluding a person from a profession solely because of membership in a political organization or because of his beliefs.
In this case, a law school graduate who had passed the Arizona written bar examination had applied to be admitted to the Arizona bar, but had refused to answer a question as to whether she had ever been a member of the Communist party. On that basis, the State Bar of Arizona refused to admit her.
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[edit] Further reading
- McChrystal, Michael K. (1989). "Legitimizing Realities: State-Based Bar Admission, National Standards, and Multistate Practice". Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 3: 533. ISSN 1041-5548.
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