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| Baird v. State Bar of Arizona | ||||||
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 Supreme Court of the United States |
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| Argued December 8–9, 1969 Reargued October 14, 1970 Decided February 23, 1971 |
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| Full case name | Baird v. State Bar of Arizona | |||||
| Citations | 401 U.S. 1 (more) 91 S.Ct. 702, 27 L.Ed.2d 639 |
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| Holding | ||||||
| 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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| Case opinions | ||||||
| Majority | Black, joined by Douglas, Brennan, Marshall | |||||
| Concurrence | Stewart | |||||
| Dissent | Harlan | |||||
| Dissent | White | |||||
| Dissent | Blackmun, joined by Burger, Harlan, White | |||||
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Baird v. State Bar of Arizona, 401 U.S. 1 (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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