LATHROP v. DONOHUE

No. 200.

367 U.S. 820 (1961)

LATHROP v. DONOHUE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 19, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Trayton L. Lathrop and Leon E. Isaksen argued the cause and filed a brief for appellant.

John W. Reynolds, Attorney General of Wisconsin, and Gordon Sinykin argued the cause for appellee. With them on the brief was Warren H. Resh, Assistant Attorney General.

Briefs of amici curiae, urging affirmance, were filed by Herbert D. Sledd, William H. King and Edward R. Baird for the Kentucky State Bar Association and the Virginia State Bar; Albert E. Blashfield and J. Cameron Hall for the State Bar of Michigan; Herman F. Selvin, Eugene M. Prince and Burnham Enersen for the State Bar of California; John M. Dalton, Attorney General, for the State of Missouri; Charles B. Blackmar for the Missouri Bar; Clyde Atkins, Charles B. Fulton and J. Lewis Hall for the Florida Bar; Wade Church, Attorney General, for the State of Arizona; J. Blaine Anderson for the State of Idaho; Robert Y. Thornton, Attorney General, and Dean F. Bryson for the State of Oregon; Walter L. Budge, Attorney General, and George S. Ballif for the State of Utah; Norman B. Gray, Attorney General, and John P. Ilsley for the State of Wyoming; W. W. Barron, Attorney General, Fred H. Caplan, Assistant Attorney General, Stanley E. Dadisman, C. E. Goodwin and Charles C. Wise, Jr. for the State of West Virginia; and Cecil E. Burney, Bernard G. Segal, James C. Dezendorf, Philip C. Ebeling, Erwin N. Griswold and Edward W. Kuhn for the American Judicature Society.

Leo Rattay and Edwin F. Woodle filed a brief for the Cuyahoga County Bar Association, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.


MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN announced the judgment of the Court and an opinion in which THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MR. JUSTICE CLARK and MR. JUSTICE STEWART join.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court integrated the Wisconsin Bar by an order which created "The State Bar of Wisconsin" on January 1, 1957, under Rules and Bylaws promulgated by the court. In re Integration of the Bar, 273 Wis. 281; id., p. vii; 77 N.W.2d 602. The order originally...

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