Michigan’s Mandatory Bar Membership Permissible, 6th Cir. Says

A Michigan lawyer lost her bid to revive a lawsuit claiming that compulsory state bar membership violated her First Amendment rights, after the Sixth Circuit said it was bound by undermined but not yet overruled Supreme Court precedent.

Although the high court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME called governing case law into question, the court can’t “disregard Supreme Court precedent unless and until it has been overruled by the court itself,” Judge Karen Nelson Moore wrote for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Lucille S. Taylor argued that requiring her to join the State Bar of Michigan ...