Baird v. State Bar of Arizona

1971 United States Supreme Court case

Baird v. State Bar of Arizona, 401 U.S. 1 (1971), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court 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.

See also

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• State Bar of Arizona

Further reading

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• 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 .

External links

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• Text of Baird v. State Bar of Arizona, U.S. 1 (1971) is available from: CourtListener Findlaw Google Scholar Internet Archive (docket files) Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)

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U.S. Supreme Court Assemble and Petition Clause case law

**First Amendment to the United States Constitution **

Freedom of assembly

Freedom of association

Freedom to petition

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