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MINE WORKERS v. ILLINOIS BAR ASSN.

No. 33.

389 U.S. 217 (1967)

UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, DISTRICT 12 v. ILLINOIS STATE BAR ASSOCIATION ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 5, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harrison Combs argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Edmund Burke, Edward L. Carey, Willard P. Owens and M. E. Boiarsky.

Bernard H. Bertrand argued the cause and filed a brief for respondents.

Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal, were filed by Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III, Melvyn Zarr and Jay H. Topkis for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund et al., and by Victor Rabinowitz and Allan Brotsky for the National Lawyers Guild.

Joseph A. Ball, John J. Goldberg and Samuel O. Pruitt, Jr., filed a brief for the State Bar of California, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Illinois State Bar Association and others filed this complaint to enjoin the United Mine Workers of America, District 12, from engaging in certain practices alleged to constitute the unauthorized practice of law. The essence of the complaint was that the Union had employed a licensed attorney on a salary basis to represent any of its members who wished his services to prosecute workmen's compensation claims...

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