Carpenter v. State Bar

Proceeding to review the action of the Board of Governors of The State Bar.

Petitioner, on December 17, 192'7, at the time the State Bar Act went into effect, was a licensed attorney authorized to practice in the courts of this state. He paid his membership dues as prescribed in said act for a time. However, on November 22, 1929, the Board of Governors increased the annual dues from $5 to $7.50 and at about the same time imposed a penalty for delinquency in this payment of $3.

Petitioner paid neither the • dues nor the penalty for the year 1930. The two months’ notice prescribed by section 46…