WASHINGTON - A petition for writ of certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hold that members of a mandatory bar cannot be compelled to finance any political or ideological activities with their dues was denied today.
WASHINGTON - The state of Texas has sided against the State Bar of Texas, filing a brief in support of a trio of attorneys asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hold that members of a mandatory bar cannot be compelled to finance any political or ideological activities with their dues.
WASHINGTON - The State Bar of Texas’ speech is government speech, so “the Free Speech Clause has no application” to its expressive activities, according to a petition the Bar’s Board of Directors recently filed with the U.S. Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON - A recently filed petition for writ of certiorari is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hold that members of a mandatory bar cannot be compelled to finance any political or ideological activities with their dues.
Nothing better exemplifies the Gramscian “long march through the institutions” than the role of the American Bar Association in transforming America’s legal establishment.
AUSTIN – Lone Star attorneys who object to how the Texas Bar spends the mandatory dues it collects are left “on the hook to fund ideological activities” they do not support, according to an opinion issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit yesterday.
AUSTIN – There may be some good news for Texas attorneys who no longer wish to fund the state Bar’s ideological agenda, as a challenge to mandatory Oklahoma Bar dues has been reinstated.
NEW ORLEANS – Ever since a trial court sided with the State Bar of Texas, the Bar has continued to advance a highly “polarizing agenda” on racial issues, argue three attorneys seeking to end mandatory dues.
NEW ORLEANS – Attorney General Ken Paxton has thrown his support behind a trio of attorneys seeking to end mandatory dues imposed by the State Bar of Texas – dues that go toward funding the Bar’s “divisive ideological agenda,” according to the AG.
NEW ORLEANS – Texas law requires all attorneys to join the State Bar of Texas even though it engages in “extensive” political and ideological activities – an unconstitutional "scheme” according to three Texas attorneys who have turned to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in their push to end mandatory dues in the Lone Star State.
Before his tenure ended in 2019, Texas State Bar President Joe Longley asked State Attorney General Ken Paxton to issue an opinion on two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, Janus v. AFSCME and Fleck v. Wetch.
AUSTIN - Public employers must ensure that employee consent to a payroll deduction for union dues is collected in a way that ensures voluntariness, according to Attorney General Ken Paxton.
AUSTIN – The Board of Directors for the State Bar of Texas were recently granted summary in lawsuit alleging that forced funding of its “diversity” initiatives and legislative programs is unconstitutional.
Lawyers are taught not to ask questions in court that they don’t know the answer to, lest they get an unexpected answer: one that blows the case they were making, pro or con, to smithereens.
HOUSTON – By remaining silent, Randy Sorrels, the new president of the State Bar of Texas, declined to continue an opinion request made by his predecessor, which tasked the attorney general to answer whether the collection of mandatory dues is constitutional.
AUSTIN - The State Bar of Texas has launched an all-out offensive, firing a barrage of filings yesterday in hopes of killing a lawsuit brought by three attorneys who contend paying mandatory dues violates their First Amendment rights.
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a brief in support of several Texas attorneys who contend paying dues to the State Bar of Texas violates their First Amendment rights.
