Bar Bulletin

First Amendment Challenges to Mandatory Bar Association Membership and Attorney Professional Licensing Fees (second of two parts)

August 2019 Bar Bulletin

By Mark Johnson 

(Second of Two Parts)

Then Along Came Arnold Fleck and Mark Janus

North Dakota attorney Arnold Fleck was not happy with the State Bar Association of North Dakota (SBAND). Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services Child Support Specialist Mark Janus was not happy with the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Council 31 (AFSCME 31).

Counselor Fleck had donated time and money to a North Dakota state ballot initiative seeking to establish a presumption that both parents of a child would be entitled to equal parental rights. He was upset...