Concurrence Stewart Dissent White | Dissent Harlan End date 1971 | |
Citations 401 U.S. 1 (more)91 S.Ct. 702, 27 L.Ed.2d 639 Majority Black, joined by Douglas, Brennan, Marshall Similar Bates v State Bar of Arizona, NAACP v Alabama, West Virginia State Boa, New York Times Co v United, Buckley v Valeo | ||
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.
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