Bar admission, disbarment, and discipline: Supreme Court decisions

Every U.S. Supreme Court decision from the 1946 through 2025 Terms that the Supreme Court Database classifies under the issue “Bar admission, disbarment, and discipline,” part of the Attorneys area.

8decisions

100%favorable to the petitioner

75%unanimous

0altered precedent or struck a law

Decisions by decade

1940s1

1950s4

1960s2

1980s1

Most majority opinions

Legal provisions most often involved

Fourteenth Amendment (due process)2

Federal Rules of Civil or Appellate Procedure1

35 U.S.C. § 311

Fourteenth Amendment (equal protection)1

35 U.S.C. § 111

All 8 decisions, newest first

In re Snyder
472 U.S. 634Decided June 24, 19858–0Warren E. Burger
In re Ruffalo
390 U.S. 544Decided April 8, 19688–0William O. Douglas
Sperry v. Florida ex Rel. Florida Bar
373 U.S. 379Decided May 27, 19639–0Earl Warren
Theard v. United States
354 U.S. 278Decided June 17, 19578–0Felix Frankfurter
Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of New Mexico
353 U.S. 232Decided May 6, 19578–0Hugo L. Black
Konigsberg v. State Bar of California
353 U.S. 252Decided May 6, 19575–3Hugo L. Black
In re Levy.
348 U.S. 978Decided April 4, 19559–0Per curiam
Kingsland v. Dorsey
338 U.S. 318Decided November 21, 19496–2Per curiam

Source: Supreme Court Database, 2026 Release 01 (data file dated September 8, 2026). Imported into CaseTrail November 5, 2026. Coverage: decisions from the 1946 through 2025 Terms. Methodology · Report an error