Baird v. State Bar of Arizona

Baird v. State Bar of Arizona

Infobox SCOTUS case
Litigants = Baird v. State Bar of Arizona
ArgueDateA = December 8
ArgueDateB = 9
ArgueYear = 1969
ReargueDate = October 14
ReargueYear = 1970
DecideDate = February 23
DecideYear = 1971
FullName = Baird v. State Bar of Arizona
USVol = 401
USPage = 1
Citation = 91 S.Ct. 702, 27 L.Ed.2d 639
Prior =
Subsequent =
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.
SCOTUS = 1970-1971
Majority = Black
JoinMajority = Douglas, Brennan, Marshall
Concurrence = Stewart
Dissent = Harlan
Dissent2 = White
Dissent3 = Blackmun
JoinDissent3 = Burger, Harlan, White
LawsApplied =

"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.

ee also

*State Bar of Arizona
*List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 401

Further reading

* cite journal | last = McChrystal | first = Michael K. | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1989 | month = | title = Legitimizing Realities: State-Based Bar Admission, National Standards, and Multistate Practice | journal = Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics | volume = 3 | issue = | pages = 533 | issn = 1041-5548 | url = | accessdate = | quote =

External links

* [http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/faclibrary/case.aspx?case=Baird_Arizona First Amendment Center]
* [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=401&invol=1 Complete text at Findlaw]


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