The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to revisit its precedent allowing for mandatory state bar association membership in a challenge by a Wisconsin lawyer, spurring a dissent by two conservative justices.
The court denied a petition for certiorari by Adam Jarchow, a solo practitioner and former Republican state legislator who argued that Wisconsin’s requirement that lawyers join the state bar association and pay dues violated their free-speech rights.
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