CHICAGO – Declining oral arguments or detailed briefing, a Seventh Circuit panel on Monday **agreed the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Janus v. AFSCME did not undo its previous finding that state bar fees do not amount to compelled speech as long as they’re used to improve the legal profession and its services to the community.
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