First Amendment Doesn’t Protect Bar Application Lies: 7th Cir. (Corrected)

An Illinois federal district court reasonably blocked a California attorney who didn’t disclose past discipline from practicing before it, the Seventh Circuit said Aug. 20.

Andrew W. Shalaby twice told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois he’d never been disciplined. The court’s decision to deny him admission and bar him from reapplying for a year didn’t violate his free speech rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit said in an unpublished order.

The district court admitted Shalaby to appear pro hac vice in a products liability suit but revoked his admission after ...