Legal Opinion
Alfred H. Greening, Jr. v. Thomas J. Moran, Individually and as Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 27, 1992No. 90-3784 and 91-3379PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Some people are tax protesters. Alfred Greening is a fee protester. Greening, admitted to the bar of Illinois in 1949, refuses to pay the annual fee to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission and was removed from the ARDC’s roll of authorized practitioners on March 1, 1989. Greening believes that he owes nothing because the fee was levied by the Supreme Court of Illinois rather than the state legislature, and that at all events fees should be collected by the court rather than the commission. Between 1978 and 1988 Greening sent checks for his annual…
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