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LEVINE v. SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN

No. 86-C-578-C.

679 F.Supp. 1478 (1988)

Steven LEVINE, Plaintiff, v. The SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN and Chief Justice Nathan S. Heffernan, Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Justice William A. Bablitch, Justice William G. Callow, Justice Louis J. Ceci, Justice Roland B. Day, Justice Donald W. Steinmetz, in their official capacities as Justices of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin and Stephen L. Smay, Executive Director of the State Bar of Wisconsin; and the State Bar of Wisconsin, an association of lawyers, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

February 19, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Levine, Middleton, Wis., for plaintiff.

Edward S. Marion, Asst. Atty. Gen., Donald J. Hanaway, Atty. Gen., State of Wis., Madison, Wis., for defendant Justices.

John S. Skilton, Foley & Lardner, Madison, Wis., for defendants Smay and State Bar of Wis.

CRABB, Chief Judge.

This is a civil action for declaratory and injunctive relief, compensatory damages, and attorney's fees and costs. Jurisdiction is alleged under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff contends that his First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and of association are violated by Wisconsin's requirement that all practicing attorneys belong to the state bar association. Alternately, he contends that if mandatory bar membership does not violate the Constitution...

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