Legal Opinion
Steven Levine v. Chief Justice Nathan S. Heffernan, and State Bar of Wisconsin and Stephen L. Smay
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 12, 1989No. 88-2012, 88-2013PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Defendants-appellants, the justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the Wisconsin State Bar Association and Stephen Smay, appeal from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of plaintiff-appellee Steven Levine, an attorney presently practicing law in the state of Wisconsin. The district court, faced with cross motions for summary judgment, held that the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s rule requiring attorneys to join the State Bar Association as a precondition to practicing law in the state (“integrated bar”) violated Levine’s speech and associational rights…
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