Anton J. Miller v. The Washington State Bar Association

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

The appellant, Anton J. Miller, is a member of the Washington State Bar Association. He received a “letter of admonition” from the Disciplinary Board of the State Bar after he published a poem critical of the Washington Supreme Court. Miller filed this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that the admonition interfered with the exercise of his first amendment rights, and now appeals the district court’s dismissal of the case for lack of jurisdiction.

The district court dismissed the suit in reliance upon the law of this circuit that the lower federal courts will not…