Steven Levine v. Chief Justice Nathan S. Heffernan, and State Bar of Wisconsin and Stephen L. Smay

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• noting that Lathrop indicated that “helping [to] establish legal aid systems” was an “important activit[y] that the bar engaged in”
• noting that Lathrop indicated that “helping [to] establish legal aid systems” was an “important activit[y] that the bar engaged in”
• for implied overruling to apply, lower court must be almost certain that “the Court would repudiate the prior ruling if given the opportunity”
• “At the risk of restating the obvious, we note that a lower court must follow a relevant Supreme Court decision.”
• “Lower courts . . . out of respect for the great doctrine of stare decisis, are ordinarily reluctant to conclude that a higher court precedent has been overruled by implication.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).