Baird v. State Bar of Arizona
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 8–9, 1969 Reargued October 14, 1970 Decided February 23, 1971
Full case name	Baird v. State Bar of Arizona
Citations	401 U.S. 1 (more) 91 S.Ct. 702; 27 L. Ed. 2d 639; 1971 U.S. LEXIS 81
Holding
A State's power to inquire about a person's beliefs or associations is limited by the First Amendment, which prohibits a State from excluding a person from a profession solely because of membership in a political organization or because of his beliefs.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun
Case opinions
Plurality	Black, joined by Douglas, Brennan, Marshall
Concurrence	Stewart
Dissent	Harlan
Dissent	White
Dissent	Blackmun, joined by Burger, Harlan, White

Baird v. State Bar of Arizona, 401 U.S. 1 (1971), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled:

A State's power to inquire about a person's beliefs or associations is limited by the First Amendment, which prohibits a State from excluding a person from a profession solely because of membership in a political organization or because of his beliefs.

In this case, a law school graduate who had passed the Arizona written bar examination had applied to be admitted to the Arizona bar, but had refused to answer a question as to whether she had ever been a member of the Communist party. On that basis, the State Bar of Arizona refused to admit her.

• State Bar of Arizona

• McChrystal, Michael K. (1989). "Legitimizing Realities: State-Based Bar Admission, National Standards, and Multistate Practice". Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. 3: 533. ISSN 1041-5548.

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