State Bar & Bar Associations,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Mar. 1, 2021
Compulsory bar can be challenged, 9th Circuit says
The issue involves lawyers who disagreed with political statements made in the Oregon State Bar's monthly newsletter in April 2018, when the bar condemned what it said was white nationalism and the "normalization of violence" under President Donald Trump.
After an appellate court allowed a challenge to mandatory bar fees in Oregon to move forward, bar associations across the nation could face similar lawsuits. But the deunification of the California bar could be its saving grace.
The issue involves lawyers who disagreed with political statements made in the Oregon State Bar's monthly newsletter in April 2018, when the bar condemned what it said was white nationalism and the "normaliza...
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